A report that the cabin of an Air New Zealand plane smelt of smoke triggered an emergency response at Christchurch Airport on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Air NZ chief operations officer – Ground and Inflight – Katie Boyer says Flight NZ630 from Queenstown to Auckland was diverted to Christchurch.<\/p>\n
“The aircraft landed safely, and as per standard operating procedures emergency services met the aircraft.<\/p>\n
“Passengers disembarked as normal and we’d like to thank them for their understanding and patience as we work to get them to their destination as quickly as possible.”<\/p>\n
Boyer said engineers will assess the plane.<\/p>\n
The plane took off at 2.15pm and had been due to land in Auckland after 4pm. It landed in Christchurch about 3.30pm.<\/p>\n
Several fire trucks could be seen on the runway at Christchurch Airport, with police also in attendance.<\/p>\n
Earlier, a fire truck approached the plane and appeared to conduct a visual inspection, before the aircraft continued to taxi to the gate. Several police cars were waiting on the tarmac.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A report that the cabin of an Air New Zealand plane smelt of smoke triggered an emergency response…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-509004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509004","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=509004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}