Virgin Australia VA148 Engine Flameout at Queenstown
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- čas přidán 16. 06. 2024
- Virgin Australia flight 148 from Queenstown to Melbourne with 73 Passengers & Crew suffered a bird strike shortly after departure from Queenstown, New Zealand. After 50 minutes of flying to burn fuel and lose weight, the aircraft diverted to Invercargill.
Was on my way to Melbourne for a connecting flight to London (via Kuala Lumpur), but a bird strike on departure forced us to divert instead to Invercargill. Not quite where I would like to be!
We are safe and checked into the hotel for the night, a massive thank you to the superb crew onboard the flight for getting us down safely and with one engine.
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Engine blowout happens just after the aircraft rotates at 0:30. After an initial panic, passengers calmed one other and even made jokes as we waited for info on what happened and where we were going. We now find ourselves in Invercargill, checked-in to a hotel and safe. Tomorrow we will have another attempt at getting to Melbourne (likely via Brisbane).
Credit to the pilots who managed to get our stricken plane down on one engine, as well as the cabin crew who reassured us and kept the aircraft secure as we made the emergency landing. We were supported on the ground as soon as we arrived at Invercargill, right through to our final arrival to Melbourne. The Virgin Australia team showed us courtesy and professionalism from start to finish, they did a superb job in getting us back to Australia in minimal time possible. Thank you.
Has a bird strike been confirmed? I can see the engine surging, but other reports are saying "probable bird strike".
@@theharper1 could be either a compressor stall or bird strike. But engine was NOT on fire. And to add, these aircraft are designed to fly on one engine quite easily.
@topher1976au yeah, I get pretty annoyed with journalists who publish headlines like "Plane on fire! Passengers in fear of death!" When in reality, it's a contained single engine fault on an aircraft perfectly capable of flying on a single engine. Having said that, flying out of Queenstown on less than full power at night would be far from ideal. Everyone was fine, and the aircraft landed safely at Invercargill. I was just curious whether the cause of the engine shut-down was definitely established as a bird strike. As the airport representative said, most of the birds around the airport are finches. The largest birds I remember seeing in the area were Eurasian Coot and Mallards. I wouldn't expect a bird the size of a duck to cause a 737 engine failure. A Goose or Swan, sure, but not a duck. So I'm curious if the cause was a bird or not.
@@topher1976au the ABC is quoting a passenger as saying that the aircraft flew into a group of birds, so I can only imagine that it was a lot less dark than this video suggests if they could see birds just after the aircraft rotated.
wow how did it happen
A bit unsettling knowing that the airport you just departed from is surrounded by high terrain.
Oh I love the irony of getting a Virgin Australia ad at the end of the video 😂
Kudos to keep on filming. A very frightening (albeit amazing and cool) experience to behold.
Wild perspective to see. Can't imagine you'd feel too comfy listening to your aeroplane making those surging noises.
It was certainly an experience for sure! Not something I thought I would ever have to face in real life, certainly not on such a crucial connecting flight too! Sods law I guess.
@@Drawyah I live in Queenstown (under the flight path) and the loud bangs and noise was pretty scary as it took off over the house. Vibrated through the whole house. Lots of neighbours out watching it and probably as confused and worried as you all were. The video does not convey the noise and surging noises enough - they were loud!
Social media showed we were all following it on Flight Radar and most guessed straight away from the direction it was probably heading to Invers. Hope they found some decent accommodation there for you and the rest of your trip goes well. A virgin in Invercargill will have caused quite the stir!
all that training, and they finally got to put it to practice... well done to the captain and team
Absolutely. This flight was a great display of on-the-nose flying, pilots thrown into the thick of it amongst nighttime flying through a valley. Forever grateful for the crew we had onboard!
Looked like every fire engine in Invercargill turned up for the landing. Probably the most exciting thing to happen in years. 🙂
Was definitely quite the sight to see on landing, hundreds of flashing red and blue lights lined up in front of the terminal when we arrived!
@@Drawyah It's been a while since I was back in Invercargill but there can't be more than 1 or 2 engines at the airport and probably 5 or 6 for the whole city. Maybe a few more from the fire engine museum if you really want to wind the drama/comedy up.
Well done to the crew 👍 Queenstown is a very high terrain area which can require special manoeuvring in case of an engine failure, and looks like they did very well.
The Virgin Australia pilots and crew showed pure professionalism from start to finish. You're absolutely right too, Queenstown has an offset approach and surrounded on all sides by mountain with unpredictable winds. Flying on one engine, here was an absolute no-no. Invercargill was the safe and right choice.
What a capture! May I feature this engine flameout in one of my next episodes? Of course with a link back to your original video. All the best to you!
You are more than welcome to, was quite the experience to witness first-hand!
@@Drawyah I can only imagine! Thanks!
I find the sound more terrifying than the images. I can hear the engine loose rpm then gain rpm over and over again.
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I live just below the flight path and I can tell you that noise and shock will never leave me. Can't imagine the people on board. Tracked the plane the whole way and so greatful it landed safely ❤
The noise in the cabin was quite something too! We all made it to Invercargill safe, thank you for the kind words. ✈️
Speaking to people below the flight path, it seems as though it was more traumatic for them than those on the plane! I know some families who hid their kids under tables etc because they thought the plane (or a part of it) was about to fall from the sky. Some very logical, clear-thinking adults who just thought 'well I guess this is it'. Possibly the people in the plane had more information than those underneath it, which helped them stay calmer (in the plane).
Very smart to head to the alternate than try an navigate with one engine through the mountains.
If you head straight down the lake there is plenty of clearance at the end and you have about 15 nautical miles in which to gain altitude. A bit narrow but safe.
We departed Runway 05 side, little option other than to follow the valley around!
Your flight almost few over my house and sounded a lot louder than usual.
Glad you're safe!
Not a video I ever would have expected you to upload! Glad everything was okay.
Hope to see you upload more flight sim content in the future 🙏
Once I get myself back to the UK, that will most certainly be the plan!
Damn I did not think you would be on this flight, let alone be in New Zealand. Glad yous are all safe 👍
Was meant to be my last flight out of NZ, heading back home to London! Slight change of plan (in quite the explosive way!) now with an additional stop in Invercargill. 😌
Great vid and awesome professional crew to handle the situation!
This was crazy I went to my airport Invercargill and seen the aircraft
I can't imagine you guys get many interesting visitors, let alone a Virgin Australia 737!
The passengers seem abnormally calm wow
only 73 I guess
Other than the initial panic of the engines shooting flames, passengers were quick to calm one another and keep the mood relatively peaceful within the cabin.
We were calm, but rather nervous on the inside!
You were on the aircraft??
@@Weeman3456Yep! Was supposed to be the first leg of my trip back to London. Now I find myself in Invercargill, not quite where I wanted to go! 😅
Dude i saw u on my news in melbourne i am so glad u are ok
I thought this was one of your MSFS vids to start with an add on. Glad all ended well mate 😊
Certainly a little different to the kind of things I upload, was quite the event to experience first-hand!
@@Drawyah yeah not for me mate 😐
Saw you on 7 news and thought I recognized the video source. Glad it was all safe.
The 7News interview was a pleasant one, good pair of hosts on the morning show!
Wow! I was right below the plane when that happened and it was a big shock. Like the other commenter said, I won’t ever forget the noise it made. Did you give an interview to Aussie today? I’d love the link to watch you talking about the experience.
It was quite the experience for sure, the loudest bang you can ever hear on an aeroplane!
I did appear on 7News, ABC and 9 News talking about the experience, here's a link to one of them below!
czcams.com/video/3injNXR9r18/video.htmlsi=14hCIKdbigzHjqXq
Drawyah I am glad you are fine. I saw you in the local news out here in NZ
Was quite the experience! I appeared on a couple of news stations across Aus and NZ!
idk why but i really like the noise it makes
The crew handled the situation very well, calm, & collected… The captains calm voice is enough for everyone to rest assured their land safely…
Absolutely. Very reassuring for us when the pilot spoke in such a peaceful manner!
This is the challenging thing about Qtn as an international airport. 1. Our runway is very short. I would've been interested to see if a fully fueled boeing could land on one engine in Qtn. I'm guessing they didn't want to find out (hence why you diverted to Invercargill). 2. We have insufficient health services. Don't get me wrong, we have amazing medical specialists. However, we are equipped for single-incident events where we can stabilise and heli to Invercargill or Dunedin. We do not have secondary or tertiary services, emergency and primary care only. Although, in this circumstance, as you point out an airplane is perfectly fine landing on one engine (provided it has a good length runway). Always been a concern in little old Queenstown! Sorry you had to endure a bus back again. Hopefully you have an unremarkable flight home today.
A response to that emergency would be to do an immediate turn and land visually. As you know the land around Qtn is, ahm, steep and high and it is a night so that probably precluded that. Axiom in avaiation is Aviate, Navagate, Communicate. Pilot was probably doing that IFR departure anyway so I would say he decided that once they completed the Bold Face items of the checklist to keep on that departure then go to Invecargill (which is a lot flatter and open!)
@@KevinSmith-yo8qb sounds valid! out of interest, do you reckon a plane this size could come to a complete stop on time, with one engine, given our runway length? My understanding is that this is a key issue with Qtn.
@@packthekids Yes it can. Generally speaking, if you can take-off you can land again... you'll just cook the brakes! Queenstown has a Visual pattern the Pilots can fly, by Day only, for an immediate return in the event of an emergency.
The real issue, at night or when in cloud, is the Terrain. On a single engine, you wont meet the performance requirements of the the departure. As such, for approved operators (essentially, the Airlines) there's a separate Engine Out procedure which allows bad weather and night departures. Off RWY 05, after circling the Basin around Morven and Lake Hayes, it heads down Wakatipu, past Kingston and down to Invercargill. This keeps the Aircraft clear of the Mountains... and, if you've had an engine fire, it's much safer to land at Invercargill now you're there instead of turning around and heading back to say Christchurch.
Looks like a compressor stall it’s pretty easy to fix but could be a bird strike
Crazy times! Bet you didn’t expect that outcome from your takeoff video! Just saw you on Aussie today show and was like hang on, I’ve seen this CZcamsr before! Glad all went ok
Oh no, this was quite extraordinary! Not the flying experience I expected to have, and especially at the start of my journey back home to London! Missed my connection at Melbourne and my plane leaves Kuala Lumpur in an hour....sods law I guess! 😅
@@Drawyah such a big hassle, but at least you and everyone were ok. At least you of all people know there is very good procedures to follow in this situation, but you must of glanced over at that left engine to make sure it wasn’t a dual! Feel like there might be a Drawyah sim emulation video on the cards!
Yeah seen and heard the jet circling Invercargill dumping fuel we went out to the airport today to have a look the jet had engineers climbing all over it drama over.
Those who don't know Invercargill is also famous for Burt Munro as in the World's fastest indian.
The 737 doesn't dump fuel, rather it needs to burn it off. I'll definitely be keeping an eye on the aircraft on FlightRadar24, see if and when it does leave Invercargill! Either they'll have to fly in a new engine and swap it on the spot, or get it working to the point they can limp it to a base for proper repair. I can't imagine Invercargill having much of a base for repair.
Crazy to see something like this happening to you. Glad it went okay!
Professionalism from the Virgin Australia team, they deserve all of the credit. Start to finish, the onboard crew were superb in keeping us calm and up-to-date, the ground staff at Invercargill Airport helping us plan the next steps and now on a coach heading back to Queenstown.
@@Drawyah That's great to hear.
Tbh at first, when I first saw the title and thumbnail of this video, I tought that it was going to be some kind of engine failure flightsim simulation video haha..
Wow, congratulations on such a cool head and steady hand in that situation. You've proved yourself to me at least.
I was a passenger along for the ride, no point panicking, just let the pilots do their work! Fortunately I know enough about aviation to know that a bird strike is something that can generally be managed.
I flew Virgin Australia last week and the general maintenance of the cabin is concerning. Loose air vents, broken handles in the lavatory, and flickering overhead lights. If they're not maintaining the cabin properly, what's going on underneath in engineering maintenance, which is a much more serious issue.
I took 5 Virgin flights (including this ill-fated one) during my time in Australia and New Zealand, I must admit cabin-wise they didn't seem too bad (including one second-hand aircraft looking at it's history) and I didn't spot any blaring issues! Don't suppose you happen to remember the reg code of the aircraft?
Whoa that’s terrifying. Glad it ended safely - although that poor bird 😢
I watched it depart and knew straight away it was a birdstrike
Awesome capture! Would you mind if I featured this view in one of my upcoming episodes?
I'll be sure to credit your original video with a link.
Thanks a lot!
Do you have any videos? I cannot find your channel nor anything you have uploaded.
After Every 3 Seconds of Engine Fire on Virgin Australia Flight 148, It Sounds Like a Race Car
Bird strike caused flameout. Engine was never on fire.
You are Ok 😱😱 from Melbourne,Australia
In Melbourne now, tomorrow finally gonna make my way home!
Yeah these pilots weren’t going to take the foot off the gas immediately for this issue at Queenstown. No freaking way.
Wow what mod is this so realistic
It’s real mate. 💀
Real life. 🥲
The surging sound is quite likely a result of a compressor stall due to the engine ingesting the bird. The bird going into the engine creates all sorts of airflow problems within the engine. Certainly a very disconcerting sound. The aircraft is capable of continuing the flight on one engine, and in this case it looks like they didn’t shut the engine down until they reached acceleration altitude or similar.
Seemed like compressor stall to me also. To avoid potential engine damage, the 737 QRH for "Engine Limit or Surge or Stall" calls for progressive retard of the affected engine throttle until the situation is resolved, or the throttle setting reaches "flight idle". I'm curious why this wasn't done much sooner in this case. Perhaps because of the terrain around Queenstown, the degraded thrust was still deemed critical?
@@JoeBlow-zr2ru Exactly, the engine out procedure would have been briefed before take off and also practiced many times in the simulator. The media of course turn the issue into a pending disaster.
Wow, you really don't want that on the way out of Queenstown. Surrounded by mountains.
I don't know about virgin or air NZ, but Qantas has specifically trained pilots for approach and takeoff from Queenstown.
VA pilots also do extra simulator and training for Queenstown flights. Something that was commented on after the incident.
@@Drawyah 👍
Invercargill "international" airport 🤣
Dirty old invers ⛳
A town 48 hours ago I have never heard of, quite the wild story from people who have commented! Sounds like this was the most interesting thing to happen here in years. 😅
Sounded more like a compressor stall.
Let’s just say honestly I would be freaking 100%. Engine out just after rotation at Queenstown at night.
Bird strike but someone is gonna find a way to blame Boeing for this 😂
dashcams!
Day 0 without Max incident
This was a Boeing 737-800 NG. A bird strike can also happen to any aircraft, not just the 737 family.
Not a MAX 😂
Enjoy Bluff Oysters and a Hot Cheese Roll while there.
Suspect you will get bussed back to Queenstown tomorrow to return home.
We've been told to be up for 9am where we will be bussed back to Queenstown for a second go!
@@Drawyah Stay safe I understand Canadian geese are endemic there at the moment.
Did anything go through the Port Engine?
Canadian Geese are not endemic at all.
@@Ashley_NZ According to information on Environment Southland website:
Canada geese were introduced into New Zealand in 1876. They cause significant damage to waterways and agricultural pasture and they consume a significant amount of pasture and stock crops when foraging. Their acidic droppings causes a decline in water quality in lakes, ponds, dams, streams and estuaries. Droppings from these geese can carry harmful bacteria such as E-Coli, Campylobacter and Salmonella. Mobs of geese can reach large numbers and pose a risk of bird strike.
They were protected under the Wildlife Act of 1953 and the population was managed by Fish and Game New Zealand who culled excessive bird numbers. However, the number of birds increased and by 1996 they had reached an estimated population of 40,000 in the South Island. In 2011 the government removed the protection status allowing anyone to kill the birds.
@atoxkorumba9143 Endemic would mean they are only found wild in New Zealand, nowhere else in the world. Examples being takahē, hihi, tieke, kokakō - completely unique to NZ.
Canadian Geese status here is "Introduced" (which is written at the top of the article you responded with).
That’s would be Clinching cheeks moment for sure.
Yeah - but it got worse. They had to be diverted to Invercargill
A town 48 hours ago I have never heard of, quite the wild story from people who have commented! Sounds like this was the most interesting thing to happen here in years. 😅
I hate when Boeing drivers rev their engines at 4 in the morning over my house 😤
Not funny
Pilots shouldn't be allowed to tune their plane!
Just a compressor stall. bird strike possible. No need for alarm.
Bro 3 mins of aviation and lucaas also make these type of videos and you gave permission to them , why not me bruh.............unfair...........well.I ain't forcing you , it's your decision
3 Minutes of Aviation are a known channel and can benefit me through a shared viewership. Lucaas I must admit I'm not aware of using my video nor asking for permission, so if that's the case then questions will be asked. I'm sorry dude, but in your case there is no mutual benefit.
@@Drawyah I just seek support for growing so that one day I'll also be recognisedd by large number of people. But barely anyone supports me. People only support channels who are already big.....they don't support small channels who are becoming big...........
In that case you *really* need to work on your Socialblade score. There's a difference (and it can be tracked) between a channel that's becoming big and one that started in 2012, lost 114,000 views in one go (including 22,000 within the last week) and ultimately has stagnated since creation.
socialblade.com/youtube/channel/UCCsdWcOhaWnkW24fAlC4-hw
My google and youtube account was created in 2012 , I wasn't making videos back then. I started making videos around 9 months ago.
@@Drawyah and I had lost those views because I deleted other old gaming videos which i used to make before aviation videos.
You are all dead, with two engines out..
One engine out, we diverted to Invercargill. Excellent job by the pilots in getting us somewhere safe! Cabin crew were great in keeping us calm and secure too.
@@Drawyah Yes all day long, but another bird in the port engine.
Your video may have been recovered from the ashes.
Sorry I feel I may be misunderstood from the above comments.
Two engines loss departing north.
No chance.
Departing South, is the same as the Hudson.
@@atoxkorumba9143 are there ever departures from Queenstown to the north? At night? With a jet the size of a 737? I thought all jet departures were to the south.