Post by corsair67 on Jul 23, 2007 16:36:52 GMT 12
From 7 News.
Jetstar makes emergency landing in Bali
A Jetstar flight from Bangkok to Melbourne has been forced to make an unscheduled landing at Bali's Denpasar Airport.
A Jetstar staff member said the flight left Bangkok on Sunday night and had been due to arrive at Melbourne Airport at 9am (AEST) on Monday, but was instead diverted to Denpasar.
Fairfax media has reported that the captain of flight JQ30 was forced to make an emergency landing at Denpasar after shutting down one engine as a precautionary measure after a fault was found.
The plane landed about 6.45am (AEST) and all 302 passengers and 12 crew were still on board as of 8.30am, the Fairfax online report said.
A passenger known only as Basil said the incident was handled well.
"My daughter actually got up to go to the toilet and about the same time the plane started to descend," he told Southern Cross Radio from the plane on the tarmac at Denpasar.
"There was no noise or anything. The pilot said that (we'd do an) emergency landing and all should go okay and it did."
He said fire engines and ambulances were on standby as the plane landed.
Jetstar spokesman Simon Westaway said engineers were looking into the problem.
"There was a fault found en route," he told ABC Radio.
"To do an international diversion, obviously, is not something you normally do."
Mr Westaway said the left-hand engine was shut down during the flight.
"It's a brand new plane, it's three weeks old off the production line at Airbus in Toulouse, France.
"We're, obviously, working on some contingencies for those passengers and aircraft as we speak."
Mark, on board the flight with his family, said there was no panic and it was a normal landing.
"They just said that one of the engines had stopped and they couldn't start it again and so they basically turned around a little bit and put the plane down in Bali," he told Southern Cross Broadcasting.
"If they didn't say anything you probably wouldn't have known that the engine was out."
Jetstar makes emergency landing in Bali
A Jetstar flight from Bangkok to Melbourne has been forced to make an unscheduled landing at Bali's Denpasar Airport.
A Jetstar staff member said the flight left Bangkok on Sunday night and had been due to arrive at Melbourne Airport at 9am (AEST) on Monday, but was instead diverted to Denpasar.
Fairfax media has reported that the captain of flight JQ30 was forced to make an emergency landing at Denpasar after shutting down one engine as a precautionary measure after a fault was found.
The plane landed about 6.45am (AEST) and all 302 passengers and 12 crew were still on board as of 8.30am, the Fairfax online report said.
A passenger known only as Basil said the incident was handled well.
"My daughter actually got up to go to the toilet and about the same time the plane started to descend," he told Southern Cross Radio from the plane on the tarmac at Denpasar.
"There was no noise or anything. The pilot said that (we'd do an) emergency landing and all should go okay and it did."
He said fire engines and ambulances were on standby as the plane landed.
Jetstar spokesman Simon Westaway said engineers were looking into the problem.
"There was a fault found en route," he told ABC Radio.
"To do an international diversion, obviously, is not something you normally do."
Mr Westaway said the left-hand engine was shut down during the flight.
"It's a brand new plane, it's three weeks old off the production line at Airbus in Toulouse, France.
"We're, obviously, working on some contingencies for those passengers and aircraft as we speak."
Mark, on board the flight with his family, said there was no panic and it was a normal landing.
"They just said that one of the engines had stopped and they couldn't start it again and so they basically turned around a little bit and put the plane down in Bali," he told Southern Cross Broadcasting.
"If they didn't say anything you probably wouldn't have known that the engine was out."
