A Virgin Australia flight from New Zealand bound for Melbourne has had to make an emergency landing. Flight VA148 left Queenstown at 6pm local time, but had to be diverted to Invercargill. Flight tracking data shows the plane did two loops about 30km north of Invercargill before continuing on towards the southern coast of the South Island. It then turned around and made the emergency landing.
“I was just making my dinner and I thought there was a car literally outside my window,” Hamish Walker told 7NEWS. A passenger on board the plane said the mood was calm but that people were “a tad shaken”. “On the ground as fire crews inspect the plane,” they wrote on social media. “Pilots did an awesome job flying on one engine while cabin crew made sure that we were secure.” In a statement, Virgin Australia said the plane had experienced a “possible bird strike” during take-off.
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