China To Restrict North Korean Airline Operations

Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir) Published August 17, 2016 | 03:30 PM

BEIJING, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 17th Augst,2016) - China will restrict the operations of North Korean national airline Air Koryo after one of its planes had to make an emergency landing last month because of a fire on board, it said Wednesday.

The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) will take "relevant measures to limit operations" for the carrier, it said in a statement on its website, without giving specific details. Last month, a scheduled Air Koryo flight from Pyongyang to Beijing was forced to divert and land in the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang "because the plane caught fire", the official Xinhua new agency said, quoting a passenger on board.

There were no casualties.