VH-OQB

Qantas A388 near Fiji on Dec 28th 2008, medical emergency
A Qantas Airbus A380-800, registration VH-OQB performing flight QF-12 (departing Dec 26th) from Los Angeles,CA (USA) to Sydney,NS (Australia) with 337 passengers, diverted to Nadi (Fiji) after a passenger suffered a diabetic shock. The landing was smooth, the passenger was rushed to a hospital and has been discharged again already.
Fiji's Aviation Authority hailed the first ever landing of an Airbus A380 in Fiji as a milestone stating, that an agreement had been reached earlier, that Nadi would be used as an aerodrome in emergency situations by the A380.

Inhabitants on Fiji flocked to the airport to get a glimpse of the A380 as it was being refueled.

Qantas reported, that a computer problem requiring repairs prevented the Airbus A380 to depart again. It took so much time to get the permission from Australia's Civil Aviation Safety Authority to have a Boeing 747-400 tug tow the airplane to a gate and then have a local licensed A330 engineer at Nadi run a required A380 computer test, that the flight crew had run out of crew duty time limitations.

A replacement Qantas Boeing 747-400 registration VH-OJC was dispatched to Nadi, which reached Sydney as flight QF-8012 at 9am Monday local time with a delay of 25 hours.

Nadi Airport had reported earlier, that 500 passengers were on board of the aircraft, one passenger having suffered a stroke.

Other passengers reported, that the sick male had suffered a heart attack.

The hospital at Nadi reported Monday, that the man had suffered from a diabetic shock.

The A380 VH-OQB was ferried to Melbourne,VI (Australia) Monday morning (arriving as flight QF-12D) and subsequently set off for flight QF-93 (Melbourne-Los Angeles) around noon.