{"id":590745,"date":"2026-09-05T06:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T06:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/590745\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T06:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T06:36:10","slug":"flames-seen-loud-bangs-heard-as-qantas-jet-leaves-queenstown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/590745\/","title":{"rendered":"Flames seen, loud bangs heard as Qantas jet leaves Queenstown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">Dunedin woman Hannah Hendry and her friends were on a girls\u2019 weekend in Queenstown when they heard about eight \u201cbig bangs\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe all ran outside and saw flames coming out of the plane. It was quite scary. I thought it was going to go up in flames.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Photo \/ Supplied\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">Onlookers were shocked and concerned at what they were seeing, with some fearing the plane would crash. <\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">Staff at Christchurch International Airport were understood to be on standby ahead of the arrival of the diverted flight. <\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">The airport has been contacted for comment. <\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Image \/ Flightradar24\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Image \/ Flightradar24<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">The aircraft was the most tracked on Flightradar24 at one stage, with more than 5000 people following its progress before it landed.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"The aircraft landed safely at Christchurch Airport around 5pm. Photo \/ Anna Heath\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>The aircraft landed safely at Christchurch Airport around 5pm. Photo \/ Anna Heath<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">More to come &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dunedin woman Hannah Hendry and her friends were on a girls\u2019 weekend in Queenstown when they heard about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11730,806,59385,1359,32878,34981,17628,71,305,27501,28372,7973,5165,111,43,139,69,4372,20930,7812,27053,7819,1961,28251],"class_list":["post-590745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-afternoon","tag-as","tag-bangs","tag-described","tag-engine","tag-flames","tag-flying","tag-from","tag-have","tag-heard","tag-jet","tag-leaves","tag-loud","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-qantas","tag-queenstown","tag-seen","tag-shocked","tag-shooting","tag-this","tag-witnesses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590745","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=590745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}