{"id":299436,"date":"2025-10-11T05:37:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T19:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/emergency-landing-fiji-airways-boeing-737-800-returns-christchurch-bird-strike\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T05:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T19:37:14","slug":"emergency-landing-fiji-airways-boeing-737-800-returns-to-christchurch-after-bird-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=299436","title":{"rendered":"Emergency Landing: Fiji Airways Boeing 737-800 Returns To Christchurch After Bird Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"259923\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/fiji-airways\/\"  >Fiji Airways<\/a><\/span> flight on Thursday, October 9, ended up circling the skies of Mid Canterbury after the Boeing 737-800 experienced a bird strike on departure. Fiji Airways flight 450 had departed from <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"266799\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/christchurch-airport\/\"  >Christchurch Airport<\/a><\/span> for the nearly four-hour journey to <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"273009\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/nadi-airport\/\"  >Nadi Airport<\/a><\/span>, Fiji, when the 737-800 hit a flock of birds on departure, forcing the airplane to circle the airport for two hours to burn fuel before declaring an emergency landing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A routine flight takes a terrifying turn as the aircraft encounters an unexpected threat.<\/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":[396,476,829,1397,535,9758,7204,294],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-boeing-737-800","category-christchurch-airport","category-emergency-landing","category-fiji","category-fiji-airways","category-new-zealand"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299436","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=299436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299437,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299436\/revisions\/299437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}