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The aircraft departed the NSW capital at 11:38am and is estimated to arrive at 7:43pm before it heads onwards to London. Qantas has reassured the more than 300 passengers that they will arrive on the morning of 25 December.
The Flying Kangaroo’s A380, VH-OQH, was en route from Sydney to London via Singapore on Friday when a sensor light alerted pilots to the possibility of smoke in the cargo hold.
The industry appears to have coped remarkably well so far this week. As of Thursday at 5pm, there had been just nine cancellations in the last 24 hours at Sydney Airport, five at Melbourne and six at Brisbane.
A final investigation revealed the most likely explanation was that Stewart Wavill simply misread the altimeter, but no definitive conclusion could be reached. The accident killed the pilot and four onboard.
The four-engined Ukrainian aircraft’s livery now carries the message ‘Be Brave Like Okhtyrka’, in honour of the city bombed early in the Russian invasion of the country.
The most significant alterations mean that there will now be four different categories of aircraft operations, with different reporting requirements for each, plus a new push for sport aviation bodies to alert authorities to incidents.
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