A Qantas flight landed safely at Sydney Airport Wednesday after a mayday alert was issued on approach
"The 145 passengers onboard disembarked the aircraft normally," Qantas stated.
The mayday alert was downgraded to a"possible assistance needed" alert before the flight landed at Sydney Airport around 3:30 p.m. local time, the airline said.The Boeing 737 was"about an hour from its destination" in Sydney when the alert was issued. The route between the countries' two largest cities usually takes about three and a half hours.
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