{"id":541611,"date":"2026-03-15T08:39:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T08:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/541611\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T08:39:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T08:39:16","slug":"vape-triggers-emergency-response-on-virgin-australia-flight-from-brisbane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/541611\/","title":{"rendered":"Vape triggers emergency response on Virgin Australia flight from Brisbane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A vape has caught fire on a flight from Brisbane to Melbourne, causing a mid-air call for help.<\/p>\n<p>Virgin Australia flight \ufeffVA328 from Brisbane made an urgent call after the vape ignited, the airline said this evening.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were put on standby as the plane landed in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/melbourne\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Melbourne\">Melbourne<\/a>.\ufeff<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/18d72a9c-3689-445a-8ea3-1c5cd0c6282f.jpeg\"   alt=\"A vape has caught fire on a flight from Brisbane to Melbourne, causing a mid-air call for help.\"\/>A vape has caught fire on a flight from Brisbane to Melbourne, causing a mid-air call for help. (Nine)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Boeing 737 aircraft landed safely and taxied to the gate where passengers were able to disembark normally,&#8221; a statement from Melbourne Airport said.<\/p>\n<p>Virgin Australia said Aviation Rescue Firefighters followed the aircraft &#8220;as a precaution&#8221; and &#8220;removed the device from the aircraft.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A PAN call means possible assistance needed and signals an urgent call for help but not an emergency.<\/p>\n<p>The flight took off from Brisbane just before 1pm (2pm AEDT) and landed in Melbourne just before 4.30pm.\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A vape has caught fire on a flight from Brisbane to Melbourne, causing a mid-air call for help.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-541611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541611","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=541611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}