Originally Posted by
WHBM
That's a very considerable run for an F27, over 1,000 miles. Must have taken around 4 hours airborne from Sydney (or Brisbane ?), all over open ocean, and would be against the prevailing wind on return.
Were they doing a tag from Norfolk Island onto Auckland as well ?
From BNE and SYD and no East-West was not approved to do international flights so they returned to the mainland.