{"id":5779,"date":"2023-06-22T09:02:12","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T21:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=5779"},"modified":"2023-06-22T09:02:12","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T21:02:12","slug":"airnz-flight-to-rarotonga-struck-by-lightning-forced-to-turn-back-to-auckland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=5779","title":{"rendered":"AirNZ flight to Rarotonga struck by lightning, forced to turn back to Auckland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sics-component__html-injector sics-component__story__intro sics-component__story__paragraph\">An AirNZ flight has been struck by lightning on its way to Rarotonga \u2013 and was turned back to Auckland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sics-component__html-injector sics-component__story__paragraph\">Flight number NZ942 was struck by lighting after leaving Auckland early on Thursday morning, an AirNZ spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sics-component__html-injector sics-component__story__paragraph\">\u201dThe aircraft has now landed back in Auckland, where it will undergo standard engineering checks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lightning strikes are not uncommon, they said.<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE STUFF NEWS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An AirNZ flight has been struck by lightning on its way to Rarotonga \u2013 and was turned back to Auckland. Flight number NZ942 was struck by lighting after leaving Auckland early on Thursday morning, an AirNZ spokesperson said. \u201dThe aircraft has now landed back in Auckland, where it will undergo standard engineering checks.\u201d Lightning strikes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5779","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\/5779","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=5779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5781,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5779\/revisions\/5781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}