{"id":254558,"date":"2025-07-21T20:47:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/battery-fire-onboard-virgin-australia-flight\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T20:47:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:47:21","slug":"lithium-battery-blaze-on-virgin-australia-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=254558","title":{"rendered":"Lithium Battery Blaze On Virgin Australia Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today, a<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255704\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/virgin-australia\/\"  >Virgin Australia<\/a><\/span> flight from Sydney to Hobart made a more dramatic arrival than planned in Tasmania after a fire broke out inside the cabin of the aircraft operating the service. With the cabin crew having been able to contain the situation, the flight was able to continue to Hobart as planned, where it made a safe landing this morning. However, it has led to knock-on operational effects for the airline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lithium battery fire in the cabin caused a Virgin Australia flight to declare an emergency. The aircraft landed safely, but the incident led to significant operational disruptions for the airline. What caused the battery to ignite?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,273,398,422,829,937],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-australia","category-boeing","category-boeing-737","category-boeing-737-800","category-virgin-australia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=254558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254559,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254558\/revisions\/254559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}