{"id":647382,"date":"2026-05-03T18:08:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T18:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/647382\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T18:08:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T18:08:18","slug":"military-aircraft-makes-emergency-landing-at-outback-airport-after-onboard-smoke-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/647382\/","title":{"rendered":"Military aircraft makes emergency landing at outback airport after onboard smoke incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">An Australian military aircraft has made an emergency landing at an airport in Queensland&#8217;s Central West after a smoke incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The C-27J Spartan aircraft took off from Darwin, and the ABC understood it was heading towards Brisbane and was near Longreach when personnel observed signs of smoke onboard.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The incident was reported to emergency services just after 1pm, and multiple fire crews were dispatched to Longreach Airport, as well as an ambulance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The plane landed at Longreach Airport at about 1:20pm on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A large ADF plane parked on a runway in the outback.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/82b2583f151a599e42b20b705f038522.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">The plane landed safely at Longreach Airport. (ABC News: Hannah Walsh)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The Queensland Fire Department (QFD) told the ABC smoke was seen onboard, but there was no visible fire and nothing needed to be extinguished.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The ABC understood an electrical fault was likely to blame, potentially from the onboard microwave oven.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">QFD said the oven has now been isolated and tested.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The Australian Defence Force has been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Australian military aircraft has made an emergency landing at an airport in Queensland&#8217;s Central West after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[14040,213133,1156,64,63,14039,313193,36506,110876,313191,44,1155,31904,313192],"class_list":["post-647382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-adf","tag-air-incidents","tag-aircraft","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-defence-force","tag-c-27j-spartan","tag-emergency","tag-emergency-landing","tag-longreach-airport","tag-news","tag-plane","tag-smoke","tag-spartan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647382","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=647382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}