source : the age
To overnight news now and a direct Qantas flight from Perth to London has made an unexpected landing in the Maldives after a passenger on board suffered a medical incident.
The QF9 flight departed Perth Airport around 6.30pm last night, but landed was diverted around eight hours later, landing in Male this morning.
The plane’s flight path. Credit: FlightRadar24
Passengers are stranded on the tropical island as Qantas rushes to replace its Boeing 787 flight crew, which has now reached their duty limit for the number of hours they can work.
The airline is working to arrange alternative flights, with customers expected to be reaccommodated within 24 hours.
Here’s what’s making news nationally and across the globe:
Erin Patterson.Credit: Jason South
Good morning, and welcome to our live news blog for Tuesday, May 6.
Making headlines this morning, the judge sentencing the teenage driver who crashed his ute in North Lake last year, killing passenger Nick Campo, wants to know if the other youths in the car were encouraging him to speed to make it to a nightclub before lock-out.
The sentencing of the teen behind the wheel was delayed yesterday with one of the teens who was in the crash expected to take the stand today.
Nick Campo, 18, was a talented sportsman and played for the South Fremantle Football Club colts side.
In some non-politics news (finally), new data reveals even Perth’s high-income earners are being priced out of homeownership.
Back in 2015, then-treasurer Joe Hockey famously claimed all it took to buy a home was “a good job that pays good money”.
But that advice feels almost absurd a decade later, with median Perth house prices rising from $486,000 in 2019 to $764,250 in 2024.
So, which jobs pay enough to save for a Perth house deposit? You can read Sarah Brookes’ article to find out.
Also in property news, Perth has had Australia’s strongest luxury home price growth over the past 12 months.
But growth is slowing globally as uncertainty grows, the latest research shows.
Thank you for joining us this morning, stay tuned as we bring you more news you need to know.
