{"id":142238,"date":"2025-11-19T02:46:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T02:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/142238\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T02:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T02:46:11","slug":"italian-military-plane-lands-safely-in-christchurch-after-mid-air-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/142238\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian military plane lands safely in Christchurch after mid-air issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">Sean Tully, a spokesman for the airport, confirmed the Italian C-130 was supporting Antarctic operations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe Italians have done this in the past \u2013 it\u2019s nothing new for the programme,\u201d Tully said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">\u201c[The plane was] circling to manage a minor tech issue prior to landing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">Tully confirmed the plane landed safely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">The C-130 can airdrop loads of more than 19,000kg or use its high-flotation landing gear to land and deliver cargo on rough, dirt strips.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">It uses an aft-loading ramp and door to accommodate a wide variety of oversized cargo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">Jazlyn Whales is a multimedia journalist based in the Christchurch newsroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sean Tully, a spokesman for the airport, confirmed the Italian C-130 was supporting Antarctic operations. \u201cThe Italians have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,25277,4487,18089,23285,78,76,2198,11927,38692,79,647,9062,111,43,139,69,26859,15026,96261,544,1077,27557,96262,102],"class_list":["post-142238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-antarctic","tag-christchurch","tag-dramatic","tag-experiencing","tag-in","tag-issue","tag-italian","tag-landed","tag-lands","tag-midair","tag-military","tag-moments","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-operations","tag-plane","tag-safely","tag-some","tag-successfully","tag-supporting","tag-tasked","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142238","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=142238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}