{"id":93609,"date":"2025-08-25T02:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T02:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/93609\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T02:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T02:12:09","slug":"passengers-saw-flames-as-bali-bound-flight-returned-to-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/93609\/","title":{"rendered":"Passengers &#8216;saw flames&#8217; as Bali-bound flight returned to airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Passengers on a flight heading to Bali say they saw flames coming from the engine before the plane had to return to Perth Airport.<\/p>\n<p>The pilot of AirAsia flight QZ545 was forced to fly in circles near Rottnest Island, burning fuel so the plane was a safe weight for landing after engine problems.<\/p>\n<p>During this time, the lights were completely out in the cabin.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/0c7ede73-f5c1-48e6-be5b-4f1121700d08.png\"   alt=\"A flight full of Aussies heading to Bali had to return to Perth Airport after having engine issues during take off. &#xFEFF;\"\/>The flight circled several times before returning to Perth. (FlightAware)<\/p>\n<p>Some passengers took videos, which showed the plane being met by fire trucks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At first we thought it was lightning, but we were on the exit row so we had the full advantage,&#8221; one passenger told 9News.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can see just going bang, and you can see the sort of explosion and the flames.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The airport confirmed the plane landed after having engine issues during take-off. \ufeff<\/p>\n<p>A Perth Airport spokesperson said passengers were rescheduled onto two flights this morning.<\/p>\n<p>AirAsia has been contacted for comment.\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Passengers on a flight heading to Bali say they saw flames coming from the engine before the plane&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-93609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93609","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=93609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}