{"id":55805,"date":"2025-10-02T07:16:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T07:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/55805\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T07:16:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T07:16:09","slug":"bird-strike-forces-air-nz-plane-back-to-invercargill-after-take-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/55805\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird strike forces Air NZ plane back to Invercargill after take-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>2 Oct, 2025 12:47 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A flight from Invercargill to Christchurch was forced to return shortly after take-off following a bird strike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Air New Zealand Chief Safety and Risk Officer Nathan McGraw said the ATR 72-600 aircraft encountered the strike moments after departing Invercargill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Air New Zealand Chief Safety and Risk Officer Nathan McGraw said<br \/>\n         the ATR 72-600 aircraft encountered the bird strike moments after departing Invercargill.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"brdZfQpMhqMp\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cNZ5704 from Invercargill to Christchurch experienced a bird strike upon departing from Invercargill this morning,\u201d McGraw said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"brdZfQpMhqMp\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe aircraft is currently being inspected by one of our engineers, and following that, it will be returned to service to complete the journey to Christchurch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 2 Oct, 2025 12:47 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,68,1863,35875,4487,70,5504,679,8223,71,18390,111,43,139,69,15026,1527,34463,4485,46796,61],"class_list":["post-55805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-air","tag-back","tag-bird","tag-christchurch","tag-flight","tag-following","tag-forced","tag-forces","tag-from","tag-invercargill","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-plane","tag-return","tag-shortly","tag-strike","tag-takeoff","tag-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55805","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=55805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}