Melburnian1
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In more on Wednesday 11 September, QF425, the midmorning 1030 hours SYD down to MEL has got the boot, as has the early evening QF459 on the same route.
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There is scant information, but for both to be evicted suggests some altercation. A turn around back to SYD when they could have easily gone to CBR in the approx same time (while inconveniencing the other passengers) is excellent because the 2 pax didn’t get to go to where they wanted to go.Are you suggesting it was a physical rather than just verbal altercation? Pushing and shoving?
There is scant information, but for both to be evicted suggests some altercation. A turn around back to SYD when they could have easily gone to CBR in the approx same time (while inconveniencing the other passengers) is excellent because the 2 pax didn’t get to go to where they wanted to go.
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...Looks like the 2 didn’t run on the 8th. That would have held the cabin crew for the 1 on the 10th, so you may actually be correct about crew rest, assuming they’re sticking with sending them back to London. There’s possibly a Sydney based crew who could do it, but I don’t know what their award says these days...
A turn around back to SYD when they could have easily gone to CBR in the approx same time
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Flightradar24 shows the point at which the aircraft started turning around was just inland from Bulli, a mere 50km out from SYD, whilst still 180km to run to CBR. It would seem the prudent decision to make to return to SYD, irrespective of punishment motivations
dajop very kindly located this article which explains more:
Plane forced to turn back mid-flght after fight breaks out over mobile phone
Two men escorted off plane by policewww.independent.co.uk
While we may not know everything that happened,
Yes, but will the plane wait as they will have my bags loaded?
Yes from turnback to landing was only a further 16 minutes. Though about another 5 minutes to the halfway mark in terms of total flight time to CBR.
I wonder in these case did the captain offload the entire aircraft then reboard, or were only the 2 recalcitrants evicted?
Would have been entertaining to watch the proceedings and the karma infused outcome.....