{"id":15228,"date":"2025-10-07T05:14:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T16:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=15228"},"modified":"2025-10-07T05:14:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T16:14:30","slug":"air-new-zealand-flight-from-los-angeles-turned-back-after-power-system-overheated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=15228","title":{"rendered":"Air New Zealand flight from Los Angeles turned back after power system overheated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Air New Zealand flight from Los Angeles to Auckland has had to turn back not long after takeoff.<\/p>\n<p>A relative of a passenger on board told RNZ the power system overheated, and there was no air conditioning or inflight entertainment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo-captioned photo-captioned-full photo-cntr eight_col \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.rnztools.nz\/rnz\/image\/upload\/s--U5DJUn3k--\/c_crop,h_351,w_562,x_112,y_34\/c_scale,h_351,w_562\/c_scale,f_auto,q_auto,w_1050\/v1759737027\/4JZXZJY_AirNZ_flightradar_png?_a=BACCd2AD\" alt=\"The plane turned back to Los Angeles shortly after takeoff.\" width=\"1050\" height=\"660\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\"><span class=\"caption\">The plane turned back to Los Angeles shortly after takeoff.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Photo:\u00a0FLIGHT RADAR \/ SUPPLIED<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Air New Zealand chief operating officer, Alex Marren said shortly after take-off flight NZ3 experienced a &#8220;technical issue&#8221; impacting the air conditioning and entertainment systems.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Crew onboard worked with engineers to resolve the issue but were unable to so as a precaution the aircraft returned to Los Angeles to be inspected by our engineering team on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Passengers will be reaccommodated on the next available services and we thank them for their patience while we work through this disruption. We know any disruption to travel can be frustrating; however, safety is our utmost priority&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Air New Zealand flight from Los Angeles to Auckland has had to turn back not long after takeoff. A relative of a passenger on board told RNZ the power system overheated, and there was no air conditioning or inflight entertainment. The plane turned back to Los Angeles shortly after takeoff.\u00a0Photo:\u00a0FLIGHT RADAR \/ SUPPLIED Air [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15230,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15228\/revisions\/15230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}