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A Qantas flight to Sydney has returned to Fiji as a precaution after pilots obtained a report of fumes within the cabin – days after a service from Auckland issued a mayday following an engine shutdown.
The incident, on Sunday night, is the airline’s fifth turnback previously week.
Pilots on the Boeing 737 plane flight QF102 from Nadi, in Fiji, to Sydney requested a precedence – not emergency – touchdown on Sunday and the plane landed usually.
Early indications have been the fumes associated to the oven within the plane galley.
They dissipated shortly and nobody was affected.
Engineers will assess the plane.
Qantas was working to accommodate prospects as shortly as attainable and thanked them for his or her persistence.
The incident follows the same incident final week.
On Thursday, Qantas mentioned QF101, a Boeing 737 bound for Nadi, returned to Sydney after an onboard “fault indicator” a couple of attainable mechanical situation.
A Qantas consultant advised AAP the pilots adopted normal procedures and the plane landed usually in Sydney.
The airplane returned with out emergency or precedence touchdown and the fault indicator didn’t relate to an engine situation, Qantas mentioned.
Three Qantas flights have been additionally diverted on Friday – a QantasLink service from Melbourne to Canberra; a Boeing 737-800 from Melbourne to Sydney; and a flight from Adelaide to Melbourne.
On Wednesday, the pilot of QF144 – a Boeing 737 – from Auckland to Sydney shut down an engine and made a mayday call over the Pacific Ocean before landing safely at Sydney’s Kingsford Smith Airport about 3.30pm.
Transport security investigators confirmed they’d analyze QF144’s cockpit voice recorder and flight information after the engine failure.
Qantas mentioned all 145 passengers disembarked usually and shutdowns have been uncommon, with pilots educated to handle them safely.
The Qantas Group averages about 60 air turnbacks per 12 months from greater than 10,000 throughout the entire trade.
The Civil Aviation Security Authority mentioned on Friday it was assured Qantas was working safely and has confidence in its security administration methods.
