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The video came shortly after a RAAF P-8A Poseidon dropped life rafts to 20 stranded fisherman who were clinging to their capsizing vessel in rough seas 670nm west of Perth at the weekend.
The news will add to concerns about the accuracy of required pre-flight tests which has led to huge numbers of returnees testing positive for COVID in Australia’s hotel quarantine facilities.
The parachuting soldiers landed safely in the drop zone, and navigated several kilometres to the airport, where they rendezvoused with another RAAF aircraft for extraction.
Little Ripper’s pioneering devices can sound alerts to swimmers in danger, detect sharks and crocodiles and track objects or people in the water by dropping sea-marker dye.
It marks the second time Qantas has had to move its date, after initially planning to fly from 1 July to 22 of its 25 destinations such as Los Angeles, London.
The flag carrier has been using its 787 Dreamliners for the missions, which have a capacity to carry around 170 passengers each, meaning 17,000 more stranded Australians can return.
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