PETALING JAYA – A Malaysia Airlines (MAS) flight headed for Incheon Airport in Seoul was forced to turn back shortly after taking off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA).

According to data obtained from flight tracking website Flightradar24, MAS flight MH66 departed from KLIA just after 12am on Sept 1 and returned to the airport at about 1.30am.

This comes after several incidents involving MAS flights.

On Aug 22, a MAS flight heading to Medina had to return to KLIA, marking the third such incident in the month.

According to Flightradar data, MH152, which departed KLIA at 2.23pm, turned back while flying over the Nicobar Islands in the Andaman Sea.

A day earlier, Shanghai-bound MAS flight MH386 was forced to turn back to KLIA due to cabin pressure issues.

On Aug 20, MH128 en route to Kuala Lumpur from Melbourne had to make an emergency stop at Alice Springs in Australia’s Northern Territories. THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK