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Crew notified the pilots, who decided to change course and divert to Hong Kong for immediate medical treatment.<br \/>The Airport Authority said the flight notified Hong Kong airport at about 9.50pm of the diversion and request for partial standby.<br \/>The plane landed safely on the centre runway at about 10pm and taxied to a parking stand without incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Etihad Airways flight from Tokyo to Abu Dhabi diverted to Hong Kong International Airport on Thursday night after an 81-year-old male passenger suffered a suspected acute stroke, delaying the flight&#8217;s arrival by nearly four hours.Flight EY801, operated by an Airbus A380-800, departed Narita Airport around 6.24pm with about 500 passengers on board.While flying over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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