Passengers on an Air New Zealand flight from Christchurch to Invercargill experienced a frightening ordeal when their Dash 8 aircraft circled over Foveaux Strait multiple times to address three technical issues, including a landing gear fault.
Emergency services were on standby as the plane, initially delayed for two hours, made a tense landing attempt that had to be aborted once before safely touching down.
Despite the alarming situation, passengers praised the crew’s handling of the incident, though questions remain about the cause of the technical failures.
Image credit: australianaviation.com.au
This are all consequences of cost cutting and keeping shareholders happy. Air New Zealand got rid of the engineers, old planes need more attention and that is the end result. As the saying goes “It will get worse before it gets better”. Air New Zealand business plan is really dictated by the government, think back who was in the government the last years? Those people made Air New Zealand the most woke company in New Zealand, with their dogmatic and irrelevant implantation of DEI.
A hacked / signal interfered Flight Management System???
Or..redundant Flight Management Computers that became confused over inputs into the systems that repeatedly tried to troubleshoot the ‘technical faults’ similar to what happened on the Qantas A-380 a few years ago?
Glass Cockpits are fine for some things, but I would say scrap ‘Fly-By-Wire’ systems.
A previous DT report on 5G interfering with aircraft navigation systems (ILS) is still up for review.
I’ll take push-rods, cables and pulleys for flight controls any day, as these cannot be hacked or receive stray signals, or be fried by an Electronic Magnetic Pulse (EMP) as can ‘Fly-By-Wire systems.
The Basler BT-67’s , Beech King Air’s, and Cessna Caravan’s never looked better…!
How sad that this firm pushed the experimental bioweapon injections and fired people but are now having issues.
Boo hoo.
We know now that the injections have killed millions. Air nz are complicit in mass murder.
They are now a known criminal organisation and continue to aid and abet this democide until they denounce it.
My this criminal enterprise implode.