{"id":621604,"date":"2026-10-05T20:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T20:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/621604\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T20:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T20:30:09","slug":"virgin-australia-flight-va146-turns-back-to-queenstown-after-technical-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/621604\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Australia flight VA146 turns back to Queenstown after technical issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">A Melbourne-bound passenger flight was forced to turn back to Queenstown after a technical issue shortly after take-off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Virgin Australia flight VA146 departed Queenstown Airport about 5.53pm yesterday evening before U-turning over the Tasman Sea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Flight tracking shows the Boeing 737-800 then circled near Queenstown before landing back at the<br \/>\n         airport.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"INdwqXkrxOG\" style=\"display:none\">A spokesperson for the airline told the Herald the flight returned due to a technical issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"INdwqXkrxOG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe aircraft landed safely and is being inspected by engineers,\u201d they said last night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Melbourne-bound passenger flight was forced to turn back to Queenstown after a technical issue shortly after take-off.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[74,85,1863,138,70,679,76,305943,111,139,69,14734,20930,34463,46796,4248,61,664,32951,305942,49227],"class_list":["post-621604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-after","tag-australia","tag-back","tag-business","tag-flight","tag-forced","tag-issue","tag-melbournebound","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-passenger","tag-queenstown","tag-shortly","tag-takeoff","tag-technical","tag-to","tag-turn","tag-turns","tag-va146","tag-virgin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621604","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=621604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}