{"id":144282,"date":"2025-11-20T06:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T06:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/144282\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T06:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T06:30:08","slug":"emergency-services-on-standby-as-air-new-zealand-flight-turns-back-to-auckland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/144282\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency services on standby as Air New Zealand flight turns back to Auckland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe aircraft has landed safely and our maintenance team will now inspect the aircraft before it is returned to service,\u201d McGraw said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIn line with standard operating procedures, emergency services attended as a precaution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe regret the inconvenience this has caused our customers travelling to Nelson this afternoon and we are working to get them to their destination as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe thank them for their patience and understanding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">The airport confirmed emergency services had been stood down.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\" Air New Zealand flight NZ5077 flew as far south as Mt Taranaki before turning back to Auckland. Photo \/ Flightradar24\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/> Air New Zealand flight NZ5077 flew as far south as Mt Taranaki before turning back to Auckland. Photo \/ Flightradar24<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cRunway operations have returned to normal, however there may be some small delays to departing flights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe thank travellers for their patience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">This follows passengers on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/air-new-zealand-passengers-on-rarotonga-flight-face-8-hour-return-after-bad-weather-thwarts-landing\/GLQLK7WQ5RAT7FSXKJONHSC3QA\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/air-new-zealand-passengers-on-rarotonga-flight-face-8-hour-return-after-bad-weather-thwarts-landing\/GLQLK7WQ5RAT7FSXKJONHSC3QA\/\">flight travelling to Rarotonga clocking in nearly eight hours of flight time<\/a> after an Air New Zealand plane was unable to land.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">Flight ANZ946 left Auckland Airport at 9.02am yesterday morning and was scheduled to land at about 12.30pm NZT.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">However, the aircraft turned around near Avarua because it faced poor landing conditions due to \u201cadverse weather\u201d on the ground, according to Air New Zealand\u2019s chief operating officer Alex Marren.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Air New Zealand flight ANZ946 was forced to turn back to Auckland due to poor landing conditions in Rarotonga. Photo \/ Flight Aware\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Air New Zealand flight ANZ946 was forced to turn back to Auckland due to poor landing conditions in Rarotonga. Photo \/ Flight Aware<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">The flight landed back in Auckland at 4.50pm and an additional flight had been scheduled for affected passengers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe know this is disappointing for our customers, and our teams are working hard to get everyone to their destinations as soon as possible,\u201d Marren said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe aircraft has landed safely and our maintenance team will now inspect the aircraft before it is returned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[11730,68,2681,806,51,1863,138,15974,70,1452,117,111,139,69,90,15267,1321,97265,1961,61,32951,3608,102,80],"class_list":["post-144282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-afternoon","tag-air","tag-airport","tag-as","tag-auckland","tag-back","tag-business","tag-emergency","tag-flight","tag-issues","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-reported","tag-services","tag-standby","tag-this","tag-to","tag-turns","tag-were","tag-with","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144282","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=144282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}