ABC:
A Qantas flight from Los Angeles to Auckland has been forced to turn around after engine trouble over the Pacific.
Qantas flight 26, a 747-400 service out of Los Angeles with about 300 passengers and crew on board, was just 20 minutes into its flight to Melbourne via Auckland when a vibration developed in one of the aircraft's four engines.
David Cox, the airline's director of engineering, says the pilot shutdown the engine and returned to Los Angeles, where the plane landed safely without incident.
Passengers were taken to nearby hotels while Qantas made arrangements for them to be transferred to other transpacific flights.