Published 11:44 IST, December 15th 2019

Passengers evacuate Qantas plane using emergency slides at Sydney airport

Australian airline Qantas Airways flight 575 faced hydraulic issues after which the passengers were forced to evacuate the aircraft via emergency slides.

Reported by: Vishal Tiwari
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Australian airline Qantas Airways flight 575 faced hydraulic issues after which passengers were forced to evacuate aircraft via emergency slides. aircraft was forced to return while it was travelling from Sydney to Perth. After take-off, pilots realised re was something wrong with hydraulic system that may affect landing controls and flaps on aircraft, so y decided to turn around flight to origin Sydney.

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Three emergency slides deployed

Qantas airline released a statement soon after emergency landing of ir flight 575. statement re, "Qantas flight 575 operating from Sydney to Perth returned to Sydney shortly after takeoff due to a hydraulic issue. Once back at gate, captain me decision to evacuate aircraft as a precaution and three emergency slides were deployed. Passengers were evacuated through both slides and rmal exits."

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flight departed from Sydney airport at 8:45am this morning and was travelling to capital of Western Australia. Approximately 20 minutes into flight, pilots received a cockpit alert for one of three hydraulic systems in aircraft. After aircraft reached back Sydney airport re were reports of thick haze inside cabin which was most likely caused by hydraulic fluid leak. However, fire was reported inside aircraft. 

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Two passengers were reportedly injured from using slides and ar passenger was taken to hospital after complaining about sore eyes and itchy throats. Qantas has launched an investigation into matter and engineers are working to determine cause of leak. Qantas aircraft that was operated by Airbus A330-200 can carry up to 271 passengers. airline has said that it will communicate with Airbus while investigating on its own. 

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11:19 IST, December 15th 2019