Footage shows the moment a passenger plane appeared to catch fire after suffering a bird strike shortly after take-off from Italy. The Hainan Airlines flight is understood to have been carrying 249 passengers and 16 crew members when the flames broke out shortly after it left Rome on Sunday morning.

A Qantas plane made an emergency landing after returning to Sydney Airport in Australia shortly after taking off after an engine failed, the airline said.

Qantas said in a statement on Friday that there had been a "contained engine failure" on the Boeing 737-800 aircraft.