Hundreds of passengers on a Jetstar Bangkok flight Saturday were stranded on board the aircraft at Alice Springs airport for seven hours.
The latest mega-delay comes just days after a 2-hour flight across Japan turned a 16-hour nightmare when a flight was denied permission to land because it was 10 minutes late.
Price break was heading from Bangkok to Melbourne on Saturday with 320 passengers on board when it needed to be diverted to Alice Springs after a passenger suffered a suspected stroke.
The ailing passenger was taken off the flight at Alice Springs for medical remedy.
According to Australia’s Channel Nine, the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft was meant to take off and resume its flight to Melbourne when an electrical fault was detected.
A second plane needed to be flown in, and Alice Springs is sort of a good distance from anyplace a alternative jet may be mobilised from.
Passengers on board had been then informed that they’d not be allowed to leave the aircraft. Alice Springs is a purely domestic airport, and never an international airport. It lacks customs and safety clearance to process the passengers, even when those passengers are simply stretching their legs.
There is clearly an enormous probability that refugees, or different suspicious coming back from their holidays in Koh Samui and Phuket, may make a break for the baking subtropical desert that surrounds the airfield, a spot the place scorpions struggle to outlive.
That information meant passengers have been caught on the tarmac with restricted meals and no in-flight entertainment for seven hours while they waited for the substitute airplane. Eventually passing through some legal loophole, it was all of a sudden possible for passengers to depart the plane. This move to get off one plane would show essential in getting on one other one.
Passengers were eventually marched off the airplane into a room at the terminal where they waited for some time before being hustled onto the replacement plane, touching down in Melbourne after 11pm yesterday.
But of course, one thing is lacking. To everyone’s surprise, passengers will have to wait until today for his or her baggage to reach, as a result of there was no tools in Alice Springs to take the bags of the 787-8..