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Qantas Emergency Landing in Darwin


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Contact photographer John Richard Thomson

What: Qantas Boeing 747 en route from Sydney to Singapore to Germany
Where: Darwin Airport
When: Oct 4, 2012
Who: 305 passengers
Why: The Qantas flight diverted to Darwin after the cabin started to smell like something was on fire. The captain described the smell as burning plastic.

No injuries were reported. Passengers were provided hotel accommodations and many of them tweeted about the incident

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