{"id":960491,"date":"2026-11-11T11:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/960491\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T11:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T11:00:10","slug":"singapore-airlines-flight-makes-emergency-landing-in-rockhampton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/960491\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore Airlines flight makes emergency landing in Rockhampton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A Singapore Airlines flight has been forced to make an emergency landing at Rockhampton Airport on Wednesday after smoke was seen in the cabin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The Singapore-bound plane had just departed Brisbane when the incident occurred.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">It touched down safely just after 4pm. No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Paramedics and fire crews were called to the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Passengers reported seeing smoke fill the cabin and plane screens go black.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A group of people behind glass doors at an airport.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/11b6e8a644c55b90f6207834fca1d2f0.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\">A group of school children going on an excursion were among the passengers. (ABC News: Vanessa Jarrett)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A Singapore Airlines spokesperson said the company was investigating the cause of the smoke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;We are providing our customers with all necessary assistance, including on ground refreshments, arranging for a relief flight and rebooking onward travel where necessary,&#8221; the spokesperson said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;The safety of our customers and staff is our top priority.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Passengers who were on board the flight were contained to an internal lounge in the airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Singapore Airlines flight has been forced to make an emergency landing at Rockhampton Airport on Wednesday after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":960492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99,4895,94,701,10589,78294,31904],"class_list":["post-960491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-incident","tag-qld","tag-queensland","tag-rockhampton","tag-singapore-airlines","tag-smoke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960491","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=960491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/960492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}