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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Tim Hanlon

Qantas flight issues mayday alert and drops height after engine fails

A Qantas flight heading across the Pacific to Sydney in Australia made a mayday call with one of its engines having failed.

There are thought to have been more than 100 people on board flight QF144 that was coming from Auckland in New Zealand.

It landed at around 3.30pm local time at Sydney airport and there were some smiling faces as passengers made their way through arrivals.

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