Jetstar drama in Bali
An AAP report says that a Jetstar plane bound for Melbourne has been forced to make an emergency landing at Bali’s Denpasar airport after the captain shut down one engine as a precautionary measure.
Flight JQ30 from Bangkok to Melbourne was due to land at Tullamarine at 9am, but the pilot re-routed the plane to Denpasar airport after shutting down one of the two engines on the three-week old Airbus 330-200.
The plane landed at about 6.45am and all 302 passengers and 12 crew were still on board as of 8.30am.
Nicole Kidman, who is a distant relative of the Hollywood actress, was one of the passengers on the plane and she sent a text message from Bali to her friend, Melinda Thorn, in Australia, from her mobile phone.
“We lost left engine midflight from BKK [Bangkok] and have made emergency in Bali, check out smh,” Ms Kidman wrote.
Jetstar management were working with Denpasar airport officials to allow the passengers and crew to alight from the aircraft.
“Our captain did shut down the left-hand engine, number one, as a precautionary measure,” said Jetstar spokesman Simon Westaway.
“The aircraft has the capability of flying with one engine.” “It has a very experienced captain and crew on board.” “There was a fault found and he followed process to the letter and went to the nearest international airport.”
Mr Westaway said the flight was at capacity, with 302 passengers, including three infants, on board, adding, “We’re seeking to get the bottom of it.” “We’re working through passenger recovery and aircraft recovery.” “The aircraft landed without incident.”
Mr Westaway said the plane was three weeks’ old and had just come off the production line at Toulouse in France. “We have the youngest fleet in the country,” he said.
He said that the passengers and crew would have to be moved into a customs area and onto another flight back to Australia. “The aircraft isn’t going to be moving in the short term,” he said.
A passenger known only as Basil said the incident was handled well, adding, “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.
Mark, on board the flight with his family, said there was no panic and it was a normal landing, adding, “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.”
Report by The Mole
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