{"id":378048,"date":"2026-04-13T23:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T23:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/378048\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T23:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T23:07:08","slug":"police-investigate-womans-death-on-qantas-flight-from-new-york-to-auckland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/378048\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigate woman\u2019s death on Qantas flight from New York to Auckland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"AxwMXWBswqbhpKS\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cOur thoughts are with her family and loved ones.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"AxwMXWBswqbhpKS\" style=\"display:none\">Inquires were being made into the woman\u2019s death on behalf of the coroner, police said.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Police are investigating the death of a woman travelling with Qantas on their New York-Auckland-Sydney service. Photo \/ 123rf\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Police are investigating the death of a woman travelling with Qantas on their New York-Auckland-Sydney service. Photo \/ 123rf<\/p>\n<p class=\"AxwMXWBswqbhpKS\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/qantas-airways-limited\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/qantas-airways-limited\/\">Qantas\u2019<\/a> QF4 service <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/travel\/flight-check-review-new-york-city-to-auckland-with-qantas\/5RNQQLTZ7RHJDLBOGDSDTMISPY\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/travel\/flight-check-review-new-york-city-to-auckland-with-qantas\/5RNQQLTZ7RHJDLBOGDSDTMISPY\/\">from New York to Sydney via Auckland<\/a> operates using a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner and is one of the longest scheduled commercial flights in the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"AxwMXWBswqbhpKS\" style=\"display:none\">The first leg typically takes between 16-17 hours to complete before a short stopover in Auckland, with the second leg to Sydney taking between three to four hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"AxwMXWBswqbhpKS\" style=\"display:none\">Flight data shows the plane left <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/auckland-airport\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/auckland-airport\/\">Auckland Airport<\/a> on its second leg to Sydney just after 8am, one-and-a-half hours after the scheduled departure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"AxwMXWBswqbhpKS\" style=\"display:none\">Auckland Airport declined to comment when approached.<\/p>\n<p class=\"AxwMXWBswqbhpKS\" 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\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" 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\" 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":"\u201cOur thoughts are with her family and loved ones.\u201d Inquires were being made into the woman\u2019s death on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,14900,634,6179,3528,70,71,676,85518,117,111,43,139,69,90,675,4372,11590,9939,61,13920,9938,1354,5816,2173,80],"class_list":["post-378048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-auckland","tag-crew","tag-death","tag-died","tag-doctors","tag-flight","tag-from","tag-investigate","tag-longhaul","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-police","tag-qantas","tag-save","tag-states","tag-to","tag-tried","tag-united","tag-woman","tag-womans","tag-york","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378048","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=378048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}