The carrier that would become Australia’s second largest airline group operated its first flight, from Brisbane to Sydney, on 31 August 2000, and benefited from the collapse of Ansett a year later before rebranding to Virgin Australia in 2011.
On Sunday, several aviation experts questioned why damage to the engine would have prevented the landing gear from lowering or why the ‘wall’ containing the instrument landing system was placed so close to the start of the runway.
The carrier that would become Australia’s second largest airline group operated its first flight, from Brisbane to Sydney, on 31 August 2000, and benefited from the collapse of Ansett a year later before rebranding to Virgin Australia in 2011.