{"id":169525,"date":"2025-09-26T03:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T03:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/169525\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T03:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T03:45:08","slug":"a-qantas-flight-from-sydney-lands-safely-at-auckland-airport-after-mayday-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/169525\/","title":{"rendered":"A Qantas flight from Sydney lands safely at Auckland Airport after mayday call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Qantas Airways has said a fire alert that triggered the pilot of a flight from Sydney to make a mayday call before landing safely at Auckland Airport on Friday was likely a false alarm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The pilot of the Boeing 737 made a mayday call, and requested an emergency landing after receiving intermittent indications about a potential fire in the cargo hold, the airline said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">It added preliminary investigations showed there was no fire in the front cargo hold, and the company&#8217;s engineers would inspect the aircraft to determine the cause of the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">There were 156 passengers on board the flight from Sydney to Auckland, a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The airline said they had all exited the plane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Auckland airport said in a statement that emergency services were on stand-by earlier in the morning for an inbound aircraft that reported issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;The airfield is now returning to normal but there may be some slight delays for departing and arriving flights,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Qantas Airways has said a fire alert that triggered the pilot of a flight from Sydney to make&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,110874,63,110876,110877,110875,44,3861],"class_list":{"0":"post-169525","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-auckland-airport","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-emergency-landing","12":"tag-false-alarm","13":"tag-mayday","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-qantas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}