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Qantas flight canceled mid-flight due to PAPERWORK issue in latest ridiculous incident to hit airline after series of mechanical issues
- Qantas suffers its sixth mishap in mid-flight in the same number of days
- QF887 to Perth returned to Adelaide due to unfinished business
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Another Qantas plane packed with frustrated passengers turned around mid-flight due to incorrect documentation, causing further travel chaos.
Flight QF887 from Adelaide to Perth had been 45 minutes into the journey and was approaching the WA border on Monday evening when the plane was suddenly forced to turn around.
The Airbus A330 returned to the South Australian capital after it was identified that the correct paperwork had not been finalized.
The incident was the airline’s sixth mid-air mishap in as many days.
Flight tracking data shows how QF887 almost made it to the WA border before turning around
“Turned around midway due to ‘compliance’ issue, according to passenger,” one woman tweeted.
“I had intended to go back to work in Perth tomorrow, but (Qantas CEO) Alan Joyce and the shareholders are fine, so no problem.”
He later tweeted that he was waiting on the plane on the Adelaide tarmac while they were refueling.
“Then they will try again in Perth,” he wrote.
One man tweeted: “My parents were on board and there was a problem with the paperwork which meant backing out.” It’s hard to imagine why they couldn’t solve the administrative problem on the air?
The passengers eventually landed in Perth four hours after their original arrival time.
This traveler was flying home to Perth on QF887 when the flight turned around and returned to Adelaide on Monday evening.
“There were no technical problems with the aircraft,” a Qantas spokeswoman told Daily Mail Australia.
“Once the paperwork was finalized after the engineering signing in Adelaide, the flight departed from Adelaide to Perth, landing four hours after the scheduled arrival time.
The latest drama comes after mechanical problems forced several other Qantas domestic and international flights to backtrack last week.
Another flight from Auckland with 145 passengers on board issued an emergency call mid-flight after an engine died last Wednesday before landing safely in Sydney.
The Airbus A330 aircraft was returned after the correct paperwork had not been finalized. In the image, a Qantas Airbus A330 aircraft.
The latest incident in the air occurred hours after Qantas’ domestic and international chief Andrew David tried to ensure there was “absolutely no problem” at the airline.
‘If you look around the world, the global aviation industry would average around 10,000 air diversions or returns per year. We average around 60 a year,” he told 2GB breakfast host Ben Fordham on Monday.
“Yes, we’ve had four or five in the last week or so, but our drivers are trained to err on the side of caution with any problem.
Qantas will investigate all six incidents in the last week to identify and address the issues.