{"id":676509,"date":"2026-05-17T10:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T10:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/676509\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T10:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T10:20:08","slug":"qantas-plane-diverted-after-passenger-allegedly-bites-flight-attendant-on-melbourne-us-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/676509\/","title":{"rendered":"Qantas plane diverted after passenger allegedly bites flight attendant on Melbourne-US journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A flight heading from Melbourne to the United States has been diverted to Tahiti after a passenger was reported to have allegedly bitten a flight attendant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Qantas has confirmed flight QF21 between Melbourne and Dallas was diverted on Friday due a disruptive passenger on board.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The ABC understands the passenger allegedly bit the crew member and fellow passengers helped to restrain him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Local authorities in Tahiti met the plane on its arrival in Papeete.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Qantas said the passenger had been issued with a no-fly ban on the company&#8217;s planes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;The safety of our customers and our crew is our number one priority and we have zero tolerance for disruptive or threatening behaviour on our flights,&#8221; a Qantas spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The plane was refuelled and resumed its journey, with the rest of the passengers arriving in Dallas on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The AFP and Tahitian police have been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A flight heading from Melbourne to the United States has been diverted to Tahiti after a passenger was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99,326027,326024,3861,326023,326025,326026,41996],"class_list":["post-676509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-melbourne-to-us-flight","tag-passenger-bites-flight-attendant","tag-qantas","tag-qantas-flight","tag-qantas-flight-diverted","tag-qantas-plane-diverted","tag-tahiti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676509","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=676509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}