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Jetstar apologises to stranded passengers in Bali

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  IMAGE SOURCE, Image caption, Jetstar has apologised to roughly 4,000 passengers who were stranded in Bali over the past week because of flight cancellations. The budget airline said it had cancelled eight return flights to Sydney and Melbourne from Denpasar since 1 September. Angry travellers have complained on social media of scrambling for last-minute arrangements. Jetstar said 180 passengers are still stranded in Bali. The carrier, which is run by Australia's flagship airline Qantas, said that most of the impacted passengers were given accommodation. "Unfortunately, our Boeing 787 fleet has been impacted by a number of issues, including a lightning strike, a bird strike, damage from an item on the runway and delays sourcing a specific spare part for one of our aircraft due to global supply chain challenges. The part has to be road freighted across the US," Jetstar Chief Pilot Jeremy Schmidt said in a statement. The airline said two special flights will operate on Tue...

Frozen Planet II returns with live footage of avalanche

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  IMAGE SOURCE, Image caption, High velocity drones whizz along a torrential slide's lethal mass of tumbling snow, uncommon Siberian tigers chase sleeping prey, and magnifying lens catch ice breaking. Over 10 years on from the primary series, Frozen Planet II returns, utilizing new innovation to give BBC watchers an extraordinary knowledge into life in the coldest pieces of our planet, a large number of which are under immense danger from environmental change. It took the BBC Natural History Unit (NHU) four and a half long periods of shooting across 18 distinct nations to deliver the six-section series. The outcome, Sir David Attenborough uncovers in the initial arrangement, catches "regular peculiarities previously unheard of by people". The progress of the series in uncovering new creature conduct has previously prompted one logical distribution on the Lapland honey bee - with more expected to follow. From episode one, watchers will see a jeopardized Siberian tiger (oth...