“Emergency services have cleared the terminal as safe to partially reopen and for operations to recommence.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
She said passengers were returning to the terminal.<\/p>\n
She did not say what had caught fire or how.<\/p>\n
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Arriving planes have stopped on the tarmac, unable to disembark passengers. (ABC News: Craig Dixon)<\/p>\n
The ABC’s Craig Dixon was on a plane that arrived from Sydney at 7:50pm.<\/p>\n
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Arriving Qantas planes were forced to wait on the tarmac for about an hour after the terminal was evacuated. (Supplied: FlightRadar24)<\/p>\n
“We landed and were just turning off the runway when we stopped and the captain came on and said we couldn’t go further because there was some sort of incident involving a fire and the terminal had been evacuated,” he said.<\/p>\n
“At least two other flights, maybe three pulled up behind us \u2014 it’s hard to tell through the rain \u2014 and the captain just said there were four flights queued in front of us.”<\/p>\n
After about an hour, Dixon said the pilot announced that contingency plans had been made and the waiting planes began moving.<\/p>\n
However, others were still on the tarmac two hours after landing.<\/p>\n
Qantas said flights into and out of the airport had been delayed, but it was unclear how long the disruptions would last.<\/p>\n
A number of cancellations were listed, including flights to and from Brisbane, Sydney and Adelaide.<\/p>\n
Melbourne Airport said the safety of passengers and staff was being prioritised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of travellers have had their plans disrupted after a fire forced the evacuation of the Qantas terminal…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":410534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[839,4740,13021,3537,5025,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-410533","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-airport","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-aviation","11":"tag-evacuation","12":"tag-fire","13":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115627265368446898","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}