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A MALAYSIA AIRLINES flight was forced to divert to the Australian outback town of Alice Springs yesterday for “technical reasons” in a scare one passenger described as “hell”.
Flight MH122, carrying 224 passengers, was heading from Sydney to Kuala Lumpur when Australian reports said one its engines shut down.
The plane landed safely in the desert town of Alice Springs at 5.48pm (6.48am Irish time).
“Malaysia Airlines’ flight MH122 from Sydney to Kuala Lumpur has been diverted to Alice Springs due to technical reasons,” the airline said in a statement.
Malaysia Airlines has said it “deeply regrets the distress experienced by passengers”, adding that “safety at all times is Malaysia Airlines’ number one priority”.
In its statement, the airline outlined why the captain made the decision to make an emergency landing:
Based on reports received, there was a loud bang heard from the left engine. This was followed by a warning indicator which appeared on the electronic aircraft monitoring system. The captain then requested for the cabin crew to prepare for a normal landing.
https://twitter.com/MAS/status/954237780976058368
The airline said that there was “no chaos reported in the cabin”, however passengers have described the fear they felt when the loud banging noise was heard.
Passenger Sanjeev Pandev told the BBC that the plane appeared to have a problem about four hours into the flight.
“It was shaking and vibrating and the noise was getting louder and louder,” he said.
Some people were praying and people had tears in their eyes. It was a really terrifying moment.
https://twitter.com/sppandey81/status/953934819024502784
Another passenger, Chin Kanani, told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation his wife became alarmed when she heard a banging sound.
“She said she was on the loo when she started hearing loud banging noises from the right-hand side of the plane and that’s when all it started,” he said.
It was like hell this flight and they were told to be ready for an emergency landing.
https://twitter.com/alasyam/status/953911304753840128
Passenger Mohamad Nogheib told ABC that he “was scared for my life, I’m not going to lie”.
The airline has a chequered history with flight MH17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur shot down in July 2014 over war-torn Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board.
And in March the same year, MH370 was en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing when it disappeared with 239 people on board.
With reporting by AFP.
Weekly Islamic terror attacks which target Western nations and Christian communities in the Arab world. Thank your local multi cult liberal. They were warned time and time again, but nope they wouldn’t listen. They always have and will continue to stick their fingers in their ears, and scream racist at any opposition to the open border liberal agenda.
Was only thinking this yesterday but does Grafton street even have any bollards to prevent a truck from mowing down pedestrians? From my knowledge I don’t think it does. I know the threat level here is not likely but it wouldn’t hurt to put something in place.
@Greg Cavey:
That would need some forward thinking on behalf of our politicians etc, they are not exactly known for that in fairness.
Both Grafton and Henry St have easy access from main roads with heavy traffic, no bollards as far as I’m aware either, a disaster waiting to happen.
@CatManDo: all religion poisons the minds of mankind.
@Greg Cavey: people over here were convinced the threat was almost non existent up til friday.
I think he should do life in Uzbekistan not Sweden. Swedish jail would be too nice for him.
@Catmando…Well said Cat, accurate and perfectly captures the reality. These guys will look back in years to come and wonder just why it was so easy take over Europe.
Then they will recall actually being invited in…in their droves…
Someone needs to asked the Swedish Police why was the terrorist not detained and deported when his residency application was rejected in the first place.
The knife Jihad that occurred in an IKEA store in Sweden 2015, well that terrorist faced deportation too.
@Lepanto: Not the polices fault. Fault lies with the govt. The policy is to tell people they are being deported weeks before they are! So most run away (well duh) when the police arrive on the date set by migration, they are long gone. head of Migration has a lot to answer for. Same idiot who let I thousands of people unchecked 2 years ago.
@iMoan Brutal: yeah I think a late night raid would be a better job and the satisfaction of ripping the Tossers from they’re beds and landing them
On the next plane to whatever dive they came from.
Go dtachtóidh an diabhal é.
Perhaps it’s harse but anyone on a police watch list for Jahadi sympathies….Who is a asylum seeker and not a EU citizen should be deported immediately…..France has several thousand such peoole they should all be deported…If needed their home muslim countries should be paid to take them back….
Trump is a genius with very special foresight. Didn’t he say a month or so back “did you see what happened in Sweden last night”?
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