Cargo door on Jetstar flight wide open as plane readies for takeoff

Footage has captured a Jetstar formation taxiing connected nan runway of Sydney Airport pinch its cargo doorway wide unfastened yesterday morning.

Jetstar formation 456 was group for Ballina earlier nan pilots were alerted by a cockpit informing ray and returned to nan gross safely.

"It's horrific," Transport Workers' Union nationalist caput Michael Kaine said.

"This is what happens erstwhile nan workforce is stretched beyond limits."

Jetstar said: "We are presently investigating really this could person happened and are moving pinch our crushed handler to guarantee it does not hap again."

After Qantas sacked its baggage handlers, Swissport was 1 of nan companies brought successful by nan awesome airline.

This year, nan national surveyed 300 Swissport workers successful Australia and said 73 per cent claimed they were pressured to activity unsafely.

"They are nether truthful overmuch clip pressure, they are poorly paid, highly casualised. All of that adds up to a deadly recipe," a Transport Workers Union spokesperson said.

Swissport has been approached for remark but has not responded.

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