Flight to China turned back after airline forgets to remove Taiwan reference

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Sources say that officials in Beijing warned Air New Zealand to remove reference to any paperwork which suggested Taiwan was a state back in 2018, but someone forgot to do so. However the issue which caused the Air New Zealand flight to return to Auckland was likely to have happened irrespective of the current questions, due to China’s sensitivity. A month later Stuff asked Air New Zealand whether it had received any order from the CAA of China in regards to how the airline referred to Taiwan.

Source: www.stuff.co.nz