{"id":66847,"date":"2025-10-09T02:26:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T02:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/66847\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T02:26:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T02:26:06","slug":"christchurch-international-airport-under-full-emergency-for-incoming-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/66847\/","title":{"rendered":"Christchurch International Airport under full emergency for incoming flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">A full emergency has been declared at Christchurch International Airport for an incoming flight this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Fire &amp; Emergency NZ, ambulance, and airport staff are on standby for the flight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It\u2019s understood to involve Fiji Airways flight FJI450, taking off from Christchurch and headed for Nadi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It is currently the most tracked flight in the world on Flightradar24.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<a class=\"ad__link\" data-test-ui=\"ad__link\" href=\"https:\/\/advertising.nzme.co.nz\/\" data-ad-env=\"both\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Advertise with NZME.<\/a><img  alt=\"The issue happened after take-off from Christchurch airport. Image \/ Flightradar24\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>The issue happened after take-off from Christchurch airport. Image \/ Flightradar24<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The plane is currently circling over Canterbury, around the Lake Ellesmere area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A Fire &amp; Emergency NZ spokesperson said four appliances and a command unit are standing by, waiting for it to land.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Christchurch International Airport is under full emergency for an incoming flight which had issues after take-off. Photo \/ George Heard\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Christchurch International Airport is under full emergency for an incoming flight which had issues after take-off. Photo \/ George Heard<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">An airport spokesperson confirmed the plane had taken off from Christchurch International Airport but will be &#8220;returning for an unknown reason, so it is circulating&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police say they were notified of \u201can incident at Christchurch Airport\u201d at around 2.30pm and are also in attendance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">MORE TO COME.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-below\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-below\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A full emergency has been declared at Christchurch International Airport for an incoming flight this afternoon. Fire &amp;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[11730,2681,1558,138,4487,12817,15974,70,2082,2070,53906,1019,111,139,69,1961,8238],"class_list":["post-66847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-afternoon","tag-airport","tag-been","tag-business","tag-christchurch","tag-declared","tag-emergency","tag-flight","tag-for","tag-full","tag-incoming","tag-international","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-this","tag-under"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66847","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=66847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}