A passenger plane that declared a mayday this morning has landed safely at Hawke’s Bay Airport.<\/p>\n
The Maritime New Zealand’s Rescue Coordination Centre said the Air New Zealand pilot radioed the distress call off the coast of Napier at 9.22am on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The pilot reported an issue with the front wheel, a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
“The mayday was cancelled after they made a safe landing around 9.59am.No injuries have been reported to RCCNZ.”<\/p>\n
Air New Zealand chief safety and risk officer, Nathan McGraw said Flight NZ5013 from Auckland landed safely and passengers disembarked as normal.<\/p>\n
He said the mayday was made as a precaution due to a potential problem with the aircraft’s nose wheel steering.<\/p>\n
Fire and Emergency said it responded with three fire trucks and two tankers, who were on standby for the plane’s arrival.<\/p>\n
McGraw said engineers will assess the plane before it returns to service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A passenger plane that declared a mayday this morning has landed safely at Hawke’s Bay Airport. The Maritime…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[138,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-623489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623489","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=623489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}