A Melbourne filmmaker stranded in Bali by the Jetstar plane's emergency landing said passengers knew from the beginning of the flight that the plane had mechanical problems.
Jonathan Messer, 33, was allowed to disembark two hours after landing at Denpasar airport with hundreds of other passengers on the flight.
Mr Messer said the plane, which had been scheduled to fly from Bangkok to Melbourne, had been 90 minutes late leaving the Thai capital.
"Before we took off the captain explained we had an inoperative auxiliary power unit and that the left engine was compensating for this, running the power of the plane," Messer told The Age. The captain told the passengers a different protocol was being used.
Somewhere is a village sadly in need of its missing idiot.