A Qantas Airbus A220 was evacuated at Sydney Airport on Monday night after smoke filled the cabin before takeoff, though the source was traced to exhaust fumes from a ground tug rather than the aircraft itself. The incident is notable mainly for its timing, coming just days after another Qantas flight suffered a suspected engine fire, adding to a run of unsettling headlines for the airline even though neither event caused injuries.

Passengers on the Sydney flight were safely escorted off the plane, which was then inspected and found to have no fault; they were transferred onto a replacement flight on Tuesday morning. In the earlier incident, Flight QF122 left Queenstown, New Zealand, on Saturday afternoon bound for Sydney but diverted to Christchurch after flames were seen coming from an engine shortly after takeoff; footage showed fire on the left-wing engine, and the aircraft landed safely around an hour after departure, with Qantas providing affected passengers accommodation and rebooking them onto other flights.