{"id":592514,"date":"2026-09-07T02:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T02:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/592514\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T02:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T02:56:10","slug":"air-nz-aircraft-with-technical-issue-lands-at-christchurch-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/592514\/","title":{"rendered":"Air NZ aircraft with technical issue lands at Christchurch Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police say they were notified about 10.55am of a potential emergency involving an incoming plane. <\/p>\n

After the plane landed safely, police were stood down.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, a Qantas flight diverted to Christchurch after flames shot from its engines shortly after departing Queenstown<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sydney-based Kiwi nurse Ange Taranto was in a row 7 window seat on the left of the Sydney-bound Boeing 737.<\/p>\n

Following takeoff \u2013 just after 4pm \u2013 she heard \u201creally loud bangs\u201d that some blamed on landing-gear. <\/p>\n

Another passenger, Charlie, headed to Vancouver via Sydney, said he saw flames. <\/p>\n

They lasted a few seconds and reoccurred several times, Charlie said.<\/p>\n

The plane landed safely in Christchurch to cheering and clapping from the full flight, another passenger said.<\/p>\n

A Qantas spokeswoman said QF122 \u201cexperienced a suspected engine issue after take-off from Queenstown\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe aircraft diverted to Christchurch and landed safely and normally.\u201d<\/p>\n

More to come. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say they were notified about 10.55am of a potential emergency involving an incoming plane. After the plane…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[74,68,31844,2681,1975,138,4487,32878,71,76,11927,38692,111,139,69,15026,49267,128570,7538,4248,102],"class_list":["post-592514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-after","tag-air","tag-aircraft","tag-airport","tag-at","tag-business","tag-christchurch","tag-engine","tag-from","tag-issue","tag-landed","tag-lands","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-plane","tag-plymouth","tag-precautionary","tag-shutdown","tag-technical","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592514","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=592514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}