{"id":396366,"date":"2026-04-25T02:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T02:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/396366\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T02:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T02:18:11","slug":"air-nz-plane-suffers-braking-issue-on-runway-flights-to-auckland-diverted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/396366\/","title":{"rendered":"Air NZ plane suffers braking issue on runway, flights to Auckland diverted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe apologise for the disruption and are working to get customers to their destinations as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">Auckland Airport said several flights due to touch down in Auckland were diverted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">It is understood that at least one flight was diverted to Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">Passengers travelling out of the city this morning told NZME they could see an Air NZ plane stuck on the runway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cNo planes coming or going &#8211; it\u2019s a cluster out there,\u201d one man said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI\u2019m stuck here trying to get to Christchurch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">An airport spokesman said the issue was related to an aircraft that was taxiing on the airfield before it encountered a mechanical issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe aircraft is now undergoing engineering checks and flight operations are returning to normal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">More to come&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" 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":"\u201cWe apologise for the disruption and are working to get customers to their destinations as soon as possible.\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,68,31844,2681,6127,51,1558,204812,73,6097,6562,305,82,1019,76,111,43,139,4061,69,90,15026,21311,1447,6378,61,66557,102],"class_list":{"0":"post-396366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-air","10":"tag-aircraft","11":"tag-airport","12":"tag-already","13":"tag-auckland","14":"tag-been","15":"tag-braking","16":"tag-diverted","17":"tag-down","18":"tag-flights","19":"tag-have","20":"tag-identified","21":"tag-international","22":"tag-issue","23":"tag-new-zealand","24":"tag-news","25":"tag-newzealand","26":"tag-number","27":"tag-nz","28":"tag-on","29":"tag-plane","30":"tag-problem","31":"tag-runway","32":"tag-suffers","33":"tag-to","34":"tag-touch","35":"tag-with"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396366","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=396366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}