Overview
- Flight VA454 from Darwin landed at Brisbane around 7pm Thursday when its brake system caught fire.
- Airport firefighters quickly extinguished the blaze and all 178 people on board disembarked safely with no injuries reported.
- Virgin Australia has removed the aircraft from service pending an engineering inspection before it returns to operation.
- The aircraft was reported as a Boeing 737-800, and the airline said the incident did not cause knock-on delays to other services.
- An aviation consultant said brake fires are uncommon and often relate to overheating or sticking brakes near the landing gear.