I was on this flight! - A couple hours in, the captain (or maybe a FA, not sure) came on the speaker and called for a doctor, a lady a few rows up from us got up and presumably went to the 2nd floor. We didn’t see her again after that, and we didn’t hear anything until what would have been 3am back in Sydney, the cabin lights came back on and the captain announced we would be landing at HNL in ~20 minutes due to the passenger’s condition. It didn’t take long for them to deplane him and his companion, and we sat on the tarmac for around 2hrs (refueling and paperwork, as they said). We landed at LAX around 3hrs later than scheduled, and they actually went through the trouble to rebook our connecting flight for us. Overall, great work on the crew’s part, and I hope the passenger was ok.
Passenger was my son. He was whisked to emergency department in hospital in Honolulu - he's all ok now and is enjoying his US holiday. looks like it might have been food poisoning from something eaten prior to boarding the plane. Big thanks to Qantas staff and the doctor who kept an eye on him in flight and put him on an IV.
@@justinmcmullen1699excellent news - QF A380 Pilot here - glad it worked out well. Behind the scenes there is a huge amount of work done by contacting medical staff and relaying all the info to any / a on board medically trained people. The short turn around is a testament to all the great work of well trained people. Cheers
I was on this flight! I literally searched to see if anyone filmed it and here we are! So cool to see your plane land and take off! Thank you for this amazing footage. I was sad about the passenger who was throwing up the entire flight but also happy I got to land and take off again. This was my second flight on an A380 and I planned my entire trip around flying on it from LA to Sydney and back
@@carlramirez6339 sadly the demand and distance makes it unprofitable to run 380s on those routes so mostly it's A330s (200 and 300 variants) from Qantas, and 787s from ANA for the two routes they service (SYD and PER).
To my knowledge it is only the second time there have been three. All three ANA A380s were here because of a typhoon near Japan earlier this year. Unfortunately it was the middle of the night.
@ReverseOps actually the only physical part of the job is hooking up both hoses on to the fueling cams, the fun part is watching your meter go apeshit spinning like it's on crack 🤣
I remember when something like this happened at ATL when we had a British Airways A380 do a scheduled flight and they usually only use the 777 and 787 and Airfrance operated their A330-200 (used for Caribbean and African Routes) to ATL too
On touchdown, did anyone else find it weird how Engine 4 is facing the camera? In fact do both 1 and 4 face a bit inward?? Why … or even if it’s an illusion, how?
I think Vanessa is doing a great job. Nice balance of finances and passenger experience. Still not perfect but definitely better than a significant amount of airlines out there (ahem 🇺🇸)
@@Plen3716 QANTAS A380 pilots tend to be very experienced and senior. That landing should be normal. The title of this video is misleading. QANTAS A380 is not a rare aircraft, just rare in Hawaii. They use either A330 or B787 for there.
@@basilpunton5702 I think the Qantas a380 being rare in Hawaii is just what they meant. Also just appreciate the butter landing it’s an a380 so not easy even for those senior and well trained Qantas pilots.
I was onboard…we all stayed seated but were instructed to unfasten our seatbelts as they refueled…they wanted to depart before crew reached their time limit and we’d be stuck overnight.
There is one gate at HNL that was built with upper and lower loading ramps for ANA 380s , I wonder if Qantas used that, and if they had load on more food, and were passengers able to deplane for a while>
There are two gates here for the A380. C4 and C9 The Qantas was at C9 so the second ANA A380 had to wait for it to depart. Only the passengers involved with the emergency deplaned.
Nothing like flying in a big airplane, but it comes as a big price when you need to divert. Not many airports can support the A380, for runway size and weight capacity, along with the taxiways. Having a medical emergency in flight leaves very few options. You better not have an emergency because you are forced to continue to the destination, and that might take many hours to get there. I would take a Boeing 787 over a A380 for a diversion because there are more options for diversion airports.
From Sydney to Los Angeles where might a Dreamliner divert to? I suppose just Fiji, Samoa and Hawaii? I was thinking of the Marshall Islands as well but Majuro's runway is too short.
It was a medical emergency (heart attack). Happened a few hours into the flight there was a call for any doctor on board. Overnight passenger got worse, call was made to divert. Passenger and his travel companion got off. Plane stayed on tarmac and paseenges stayed on. I was on this flight. Qantas staff did an amazing job. I'm flying again on Saturday so expect it to happen again then 😂
@@benjamingalaxy thanks for the real truth and hope all went ok for the passenger and wasn’t too inconvenient. My flight from Melbourne on QF 93 last Monday was cancelled 😞 It’s the first time in my flying years I have had this happen so beginning to worry about the A380s which are my favourite aircraft but perhaps the 4 years in the desert have not helped. Cheers. John.
NIICELY DONE Very nicely done. More about the airport with possible diagram would be helpful if at all possible... Just a sayin'... James Hennighan Yorkshire, England
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I was on this flight! - A couple hours in, the captain (or maybe a FA, not sure) came on the speaker and called for a doctor, a lady a few rows up from us got up and presumably went to the 2nd floor.
We didn’t see her again after that, and we didn’t hear anything until what would have been 3am back in Sydney, the cabin lights came back on and the captain announced we would be landing at HNL in ~20 minutes due to the passenger’s condition. It didn’t take long for them to deplane him and his companion, and we sat on the tarmac for around 2hrs (refueling and paperwork, as they said). We landed at LAX around 3hrs later than scheduled, and they actually went through the trouble to rebook our connecting flight for us.
Overall, great work on the crew’s part, and I hope the passenger was ok.
Passenger was my son. He was whisked to emergency department in hospital in Honolulu - he's all ok now and is enjoying his US holiday. looks like it might have been food poisoning from something eaten prior to boarding the plane. Big thanks to Qantas staff and the doctor who kept an eye on him in flight and put him on an IV.
and we sat on the APRON for around 2hrs
@@justinmcmullen1699excellent news - QF A380 Pilot here - glad it worked out well. Behind the scenes there is a huge amount of work done by contacting medical staff and relaying all the info to any / a on board medically trained people. The short turn around is a testament to all the great work of well trained people.
Cheers
The A380 is majestic. I can't think of a more appropriate word to describe. I have flown economy class on Emirates A380. Love it!
The essence of photography. Being at the right place at the right time.
Very true!
I was on this flight! I literally searched to see if anyone filmed it and here we are! So cool to see your plane land and take off! Thank you for this amazing footage. I was sad about the passenger who was throwing up the entire flight but also happy I got to land and take off again. This was my second flight on an A380 and I planned my entire trip around flying on it from LA to Sydney and back
Wow, some seriously impressive camera work right there!
I was on that plane it landed in Oahu because of a medical emergency
Thanks for the info. Hope you enjoyed your very short stay in Hawaii!
@@ReverseOps the sick passenger's father has commented as well. Glad his son is ok.
@@hayhay9284 how long were you on the ground for?
Beautiful wings on those
They really are!
Butter, butter, butter. What a beautiful landing.
Indeed!
@@waynecummins9155 I think Qantas Captains pride themselves on it, very rarely have experienced a rough one flying with them 😁
@@simonj6117 i had a 737 do a firm landing in Adelaide once but that was not a really bad landing
The Big Roo with two of the Big Turtles. Nice catch Patrick of the herd. Saw it live yesterday thank you.
It was quite a sight! Thanks for watching!
I wonder if ANA ever flew their A380s to Australia or if Qantas ever flew their A380s to Japan.
@@carlramirez6339 sadly the demand and distance makes it unprofitable to run 380s on those routes so mostly it's A330s (200 and 300 variants) from Qantas, and 787s from ANA for the two routes they service (SYD and PER).
great footage of the Qantas coming and going out. Beautiful aircraft. Thanks for the share
You did a great job capturing this plane.
Thanks Jen!
great capture!
✈️. Right on Patrick 👍! Mahalo for sharing the clip.
My pleasure!!
Amazing catch Patrick!! One you will never forget..... Unless they land again. 😅
Thanks Brandon!
A380 the plane that just never gives up. Put to sleep and brought back and saving the commercial flight industry
10/10 for landing thanks you Patrick ❤❤
YW, thanks for watching!
05:10 Might be the most A380s on the ground at the same time at HNL.
Hope all is well with the passenger needing attention.
To my knowledge it is only the second time there have been three. All three ANA A380s were here because of a typhoon near Japan earlier this year. Unfortunately it was the middle of the night.
Absolutely fantastic catches 👏
Thank you very much!
Thanks for sharing. It was a great capture .. The ANA liveries are stunning. Hope the pax is getting better 🙏 😊
You're welcome! Hope so too.
Thanks for sharing this Patrick
You're welcome!
Thank you, this is a wonderful video. I could rewatch the landing and taxi all day!
That is quite the zoom you’ve got there! I thought you were on the AOA! Aloha!
3rd time QF's 388 landed due to a medical emergency, i fueled that thing twice.
Awesome, sounds like a fun but hard job.
@ReverseOps actually the only physical part of the job is hooking up both hoses on to the fueling cams, the fun part is watching your meter go apeshit spinning like it's on crack 🤣
Back in the day Honolulu was a regular stop for Qantas. I flew there on a 747 in 1994.
I remember when something like this happened at ATL when we had a British Airways A380 do a scheduled flight and they usually only use the 777 and 787 and Airfrance operated their A330-200 (used for Caribbean and African Routes) to ATL too
That’s interesting! I don’t recall that but ATL is a big hub.
Great job on the landing video. Not a huge diversion on the Sydney to Los Angeles route.
Thanks! It usually passes just south of us but every once in a while it goes right over us.
Beautiful video work.
Thanks, appreciate it!
A stunning piece of machinery!
Great camera work!
Thanks a lot!
Wow nice catch and great camera work! Btw what camera are you using? Video is very clear.
Thank you! It is a Sony NX800.
On touchdown, did anyone else find it weird how Engine 4 is facing the camera?
In fact do both 1 and 4 face a bit inward?? Why … or even if it’s an illusion, how?
That sounds like an slight optical distortion caused by the position of the engines in relation to the camera.
Lets hope the passenger survived, this drama never made the news. Qantas is in a very different mode now Alan Joyce has departed
Thankfully never seen in Australia again.
I think Vanessa is doing a great job. Nice balance of finances and passenger experience. Still not perfect but definitely better than a significant amount of airlines out there (ahem 🇺🇸)
As an Aussie Qantas’ a380 is a massive source of pride. I hope the person who had the heart attack was ok and WOW that butter landing was 🔥
@@Plen3716 QANTAS A380 pilots tend to be very experienced and senior. That landing should be normal. The title of this video is misleading. QANTAS A380 is not a rare aircraft, just rare in Hawaii. They use either A330 or B787 for there.
@@basilpunton5702 I think the Qantas a380 being rare in Hawaii is just what they meant. Also just appreciate the butter landing it’s an a380 so not easy even for those senior and well trained Qantas pilots.
Not heart attack. Child had food poisoning. Dad has commented here.
If the A-380 was diverted from LAX to Sydney it would have been QF12. QF11 is the flight from Sydney to LAX,
This was going from SYD to LAX.
@@ReverseOps Yes, well it did not quite read that way.
@@arunta5 reads just fine. There was nothing saying it was from LAX.
@@biingyin5522 I was only clarfying what the flight numbers were each way. That's it.
@@arunta5 except that you said "well it did not quite read that way". There is nothing that suggested it was anything other than from SYD....
Don't know about the a380 but the qantas b747 the roo was 24foot tall
Wow, that's crazy big.
11:05 I'll miss the planes flying into 8L at night. 96706; I don't might the sounds.
I would love to live where I could planespot from my back yard!
Beauty!
Indeed!
Woopee doo what is so extraordinary about it?
Ooh great video!! Where do you spot at HNL?? Ill be going in February
The two main spots are both on Lagoon Dr. First is at the very end. The GA parking lot. This video is from the corner of Lagoon Dr and Kalewa St
@ReverseOps alright thank you!!!
How long was it there? Did passengers get off?
No we stayed on, only the sick passenger and his companion deplaned.
I suspect it was diverted due to a sick passenger cause a few hours later it flew on to LAX
Caption says it Was diverted from LAX to HNL
So it flew back to LAX?
@ incorrect. According to flight radar 24 it was flying in from Sydney when it diverted to HNL. After a few hours in HNL, it continued on to LAX
What's the destination after taking off from. HNL ?
@ Los Angeles (LAX)
The flight number is QF11....that's the Sydney to Los Angeles leg.
Spirit of Australia
@@casey6933 also known as the Flying Rat. 🤣
Trying to resuscitate it's reputation after Alan Joyce from Ireland totally destroyed it...Not a single person in Qantas was sad to see that tool go.
Doesn't ANA fly there nice big coloured 380's in there?
5:25 here it is.
Do you mean the same ones that you saw in the video when you watched it?
Yes, it came into the picture at 5:09 . I guess yo7 didn’t watch the video to that point, then?? 🤔
@@paulsz6194 Guffaw...
@ are you trying to mimic a toucan ?? 🤣
Just wondering if the passengers got to disembark? The Qantas airport staff at HNL are not use to servicing an A380.
Only the passengers involved with the emergency deplaned.
I was onboard…we all stayed seated but were instructed to unfasten our seatbelts as they refueled…they wanted to depart before crew reached their time limit and we’d be stuck overnight.
@@johnschirano stuck overnight in Hawaii due to something you can't control just gives you the chance to enjoy it !
Hope that person is okay 🙏
There is one gate at HNL that was built with upper and lower loading ramps for ANA 380s , I wonder if Qantas used that, and if they had load on more food, and were passengers able to deplane for a while>
There are two gates here for the A380. C4 and C9 The Qantas was at C9 so the second ANA A380 had to wait for it to depart. Only the passengers involved with the emergency deplaned.
Nothing like flying in a big airplane, but it comes as a big price when you need to divert. Not many airports can support the A380, for runway size and weight capacity, along with the taxiways. Having a medical emergency in flight leaves very few options. You better not have an emergency because you are forced to continue to the destination, and that might take many hours to get there. I would take a Boeing 787 over a A380 for a diversion because there are more options for diversion airports.
Good point! But I would still take an A380 over a Dreamliner.
What would have happened if this happened while flying to Johannesburg ? Where would it land?
From Sydney to Los Angeles where might a Dreamliner divert to? I suppose just Fiji, Samoa and Hawaii? I was thinking of the Marshall Islands as well but Majuro's runway is too short.
@@philippicmen7558 flying to Johannesburg from where, if Australia then Mauritius or the Maldives are an option, both can accept A380 aircraft.
@@philippicmen7558 flying to Johannesburg from where? If Australia, then Mauritius or the Maldives are an option, both can accept A380 aircraft.
So why the diversion from LAX to HNL?
a medical emergency
Did they have to dump fuel?
No, but they were heavy enough that they had to go full length on 8L. That is very unusual even for A380s.
what happened?
@@landonrosas8162 Medical episode onboard
Hope the ill pax is ok
Qantas never crashed
- Rainman
ANA 380s land at HNL every morning around 9:40. They pass over close to my house.
I flew with Qantas Boeing 747 the Flying Kangaroo 🦘 in 1979 Sydney 🇦🇺 to Greece 🇬🇷
ANA fly them in twice a day ?
Yes flights NH182 and NH184 but in January NH182 will move to 3 times a week.
Reason for divert?
Someone in the chat said medical but I also heard Swissport mechanics were looking at the right main landing gear.
It was a medical emergency (heart attack). Happened a few hours into the flight there was a call for any doctor on board. Overnight passenger got worse, call was made to divert. Passenger and his travel companion got off. Plane stayed on tarmac and paseenges stayed on. I was on this flight. Qantas staff did an amazing job. I'm flying again on Saturday so expect it to happen again then 😂
Great photography ReverseOps, you caught a roo, great to see from Aussie!
@@benjamingalaxy thanks for the real truth and hope all went ok for the passenger and wasn’t too inconvenient. My flight from Melbourne on QF 93 last Monday was cancelled 😞 It’s the first time in my flying years I have had this happen so beginning to worry about the A380s which are my favourite aircraft but perhaps the 4 years in the desert have not helped. Cheers. John.
@@benjamingalaxy
Why was the flight diverted??
Medical emergency on board, someone said heart attack but I’m not sure
They had medical emergency
Also president of Taiwan arrived on that China airlines that same morning
I caught that one as well. You can see it in the livestream replay.
Why did the plane divert?
Medical Emergency
A380 is beautiful aircraft, Aussie aussie aussie oi oi oi
NIICELY DONE
Very nicely done. More about the airport with possible diagram would be helpful if at all possible...
Just a sayin'...
James Hennighan
Yorkshire, England
It's a "Super" not a "Heavy", Controller made that mistake.
Thev 380 is not rare to HNL, they get them every day, I guess just the Qantas 380.
Insane Japan sends so many big planes to Hawaii every day
@@Talkless142 I believe there is a sizeable Japanese diaspora in Hawaii.
Tourist industry is huge. I was there on in 2013 for 10 glorious days. Many Japanese.
Nailed that landing and a great video. 😃🦘✈️