{"id":135773,"date":"2025-11-15T04:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T04:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/135773\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T04:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T04:25:07","slug":"air-nz-flight-returns-to-auckland-after-mechanical-issue-found-following-takeoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/135773\/","title":{"rendered":"Air NZ flight returns to Auckland after mechanical issue found following takeoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rVZUAWgtAFijHNuRNP\" style=\"display:none\">Fire and emergency services were not called to the terminal. However, several airport vehicles were on standby as the flight touched down in Auckland again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rVZUAWgtAFijHNuRNP\" style=\"display:none\">Air New Zealand is now working to get affected passengers on new flights to Queenstown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rVZUAWgtAFijHNuRNP\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe regret the inconvenience this has caused our customers travelling to Queenstown this afternoon,\u201d Pearce said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rVZUAWgtAFijHNuRNP\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe are working to get them to their destination as quickly as possible. We thank them for their patience and understanding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"rVZUAWgtAFijHNuRNP\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fire and emergency services were not called to the terminal. However, several airport vehicles were on standby as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,68,2681,51,1863,13849,70,5504,1874,71,82,76,31737,111,43,139,69,92873,6443,34463,46796,61],"class_list":["post-135773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-air","tag-airport","tag-auckland","tag-back","tag-citys","tag-flight","tag-following","tag-found","tag-from","tag-identified","tag-issue","tag-mechanical","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-redirected","tag-returns","tag-shortly","tag-takeoff","tag-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}