Qantas flight from Singapore to Sydney is forced to divert to Adelaide after mid-air emergency
- Qantas flight headed to Sydney
- Mid-air emergency forced diversion
A Qantas flight from Singapore to Sydney has been forced to divert to Adelaide following a mid-air emergency.
Qantas flight QF82 departed from Singapore at around 9:10pm on Wednesday and was scheduled to land in Sydney on Thursday morning.
However the flight was diverted and landed in Adelaide around 5am after crews had announced a medical emergency.
No detail regarding the emergency has been revealed and the flight later departed Adelaide en route to Sydney.
It marks the third time a Qantas plane has been hit with an emergency mid-flight in less than a week.
A Qantas flight was forced to land in Adelaide in order to attend a medical emergency onboard
Flight QF82 was en route from Singapore to Sydney when the pilot announced a mid-air medical emergency, forcing the flight to divert (pictured, the plane’s flight path)
On Monday a Qantas flight QF1974 departed Adelaide at 11:20am and was scheduled to land in Canberra at around 1:25pm.
Cabin crews smelt fumes inside the cabin about 10 minutes after takeoff, leading the pilot to request a priority landing in order to immediately return to Adelaide.
At the time a spokesperson for Qantas said that the ‘the fumes dissipated quickly, and no one was impacted as a result of the incident’.
Another QantasLink plane headed from Sydney to Port Macquarie was also diverted after it suffered a mechanical issue.
QF2162 left Sydney Airport at about 10.50am on Friday morning but returned and landed safely at 12pm.
Emergency crews had rushed to meet it.
More to come
QF1974 left Adelaide and was in the air for 10 minutes before detecting fumes in the cabin and circling back to land at Adelaide Airport (pictured, the plane’s flight path)
QF2162 from Sydney to Port Macquarie was redirected back to Sydney after suffering a mechanical issue (pictured, the plane’s flight path)