Cairns Wheels News
Bats In The Works Spark Airbus Scare
Tuesday December 28, 1993
Sydney Fruit bats caused an emergency on an Ansett flight to Cairns on Boxing Day, prompting the pilot to abandon the first landing attempt. The jet, an Airbus A320 flight from Brisbane, with 139 passengers, was just 20 metres off the ground and approaching the runway when it flew through the ba