Freedom To Investigate Plane Stranding
05/10/2004 06:35 PM
NewstalkZB
Freedom Air will be investigating how one of their planes got stuck at Melbourne airport, stranding all the passengers.
The flight was bound for Hamilton.
General Manager Michael Young says the plane's left-hand lane landing gear got caught in soft turf on the taxi-way.
He says the plane was going very slowly and no one was hurt in the incident.
At this stage, he says they have got no idea how the landing-gear got to be so far off to the side in the first place.
He says that is something they will investigate once they have recovered the plane and got all the passengers and crew back to New Zealand.
Nearly 100 people on the Freedom Air plane have spent the night in a Melbourne hotel.
Freedom Air General Manager Michael Young says it has now been recovered and is in the hangar.
He says it will undergo comprehensive checks but there does not look to be any structural damage.
