BREAKING: Passengers flying from Melbourne to Sydney on a Jetstar flight on Tuesday night were able to disembark without a health screening.
The major health breach, confirmed by Jetstar to NCA NewsWire, allowed some on board to enter the major city with no scrutiny.
A Jetstar spokesman said crew assisted health officials, who were not present at the time the plane landed, by locating passengers in the terminal. The airline also provided the aircraft manifest to the department to assist them in contacting passengers who were not found in the terminal. “Together with Sydney Airport, we have refined our disembarkation procedures to prevent this situation occurring again,” the spokesman said.
Passengers had been screened in Melbourne, but it is government policy they be tested again before disembarking in Sydney.
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