"The 737-800 was due to take off for Christchurch at 10am when the crew announced there would be a short delay to sort out a problem."
"The crew called for volunteers to leave the aircraft and suggested that those who had friends or relatives to stay with in Melbourne might like to extend their holiday....."
"If volunteers were not found, then those passengers who had been on standby would be asked to disembark."
"Then came a further announcement that one passenger had not confessed to having been on the standby list and she was warned that "if you're hiding, we'll track you down."
"Then things got tough."
Pacific Blue has ways of making you disembark
