{"id":396704,"date":"2026-04-25T07:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T07:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/396704\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T07:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T07:44:08","slug":"air-new-zealand-auckland-to-gisborne-flight-nz5171-diverted-for-safety-checks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/396704\/","title":{"rendered":"Air New Zealand Auckland to Gisborne flight NZ5171 diverted for safety checks"},"content":{"rendered":"

McGraw said the airlines engineers were currently inspecting the De Havilland Camada Dash 8-300 before it is returned to service. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe apologise for the disruption and are working to get affected customers to their destinations as soon as possible. We thank them for their patience and understanding.\u201d<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Auckland Airport said there had been no other impacts to arrivals and departures at both the international and domestic terminals.<\/p>\n

Earlier today, flights into Auckland were disrupted<\/a> by an Air New Zealand aircraft departing for Hong Kong after it suffered a braking issue when preparing for take-off. <\/p>\n

Several flights were diverted as a result of the issue, with McGraw stating the airline was working to get customers to their destinations \u201cas soon as possible\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"McGraw said the airlines engineers were currently inspecting the De Havilland Camada Dash 8-300 before it is returned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,68,51,9349,73,70,2082,12506,52329,204919,117,111,43,139,69,204918,12971,6302,6211,61,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-396704","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-auckland","11":"tag-checks","12":"tag-diverted","13":"tag-flight","14":"tag-for","15":"tag-gisborne","16":"tag-indication","17":"tag-midflight","18":"tag-new","19":"tag-new-zealand","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-newzealand","22":"tag-nz","23":"tag-nz5171","24":"tag-returned","25":"tag-safety","26":"tag-system","27":"tag-to","28":"tag-zealand"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396704","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=396704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}