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12-05-2017, 03:56 AM
HONG KONG: Hong Kong carrier Cathay Pacific said on Monday that one of its air crews spotted what they believed to be the missile fired by North Korea last week, as they flew between the United States and the southern Chinese city.
The North fired an intercontinental ballistic missile believed capable of hitting the US mainland last Wednesday. A statement from Cathay said a flight crew had that day sighted "what is suspected to be the re-entry of the recent DPRK test missile".
Cathay did not give the location of the flight at the time of the sighting, but said the crew of the CX893 flight between San Francisco and Hong Kong had notified Japanese air traffic control "according to procedures".
Operations had continued as normal, the statement added. Pyongyang said the missile reached an altitude of 4,475 kilometres and splashed down 950 kilometres from its launch site. It also claimed the Hwasong-15 missile fired on Wednesday can be tipped with a "super-large heavy warhead" capable of striking the whole US mainland.
Cathay said there was no current plan to change air routes, describing the flight as being "far from the event location". "We remain alert and review the situation as it evolves," the statement said.
In a message shared with staff, Cathay general manager Mark Hoey said the crew had described seeing the missile "blow up and fall apart", the South China Morning Post reported. Hoey said that another plane, CX096 which is a freight service between Hong Kong and Mexico, was only a few hundred miles away and could have been closer than the San Francisco flight, according to the report.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/World-TheNewsInternational/~4/bL9olEjGKYU
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The North fired an intercontinental ballistic missile believed capable of hitting the US mainland last Wednesday. A statement from Cathay said a flight crew had that day sighted "what is suspected to be the re-entry of the recent DPRK test missile".
Cathay did not give the location of the flight at the time of the sighting, but said the crew of the CX893 flight between San Francisco and Hong Kong had notified Japanese air traffic control "according to procedures".
Operations had continued as normal, the statement added. Pyongyang said the missile reached an altitude of 4,475 kilometres and splashed down 950 kilometres from its launch site. It also claimed the Hwasong-15 missile fired on Wednesday can be tipped with a "super-large heavy warhead" capable of striking the whole US mainland.
Cathay said there was no current plan to change air routes, describing the flight as being "far from the event location". "We remain alert and review the situation as it evolves," the statement said.
In a message shared with staff, Cathay general manager Mark Hoey said the crew had described seeing the missile "blow up and fall apart", the South China Morning Post reported. Hoey said that another plane, CX096 which is a freight service between Hong Kong and Mexico, was only a few hundred miles away and could have been closer than the San Francisco flight, according to the report.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/World-TheNewsInternational/~4/bL9olEjGKYU
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