Australian passengers caught up in Qatar Airways flight nightmare as plane starts smoking on tarmac

Australian passengers have been caught up in a flight nightmare after they were boarded on a plane they say was “billowing smoke” just hours earlier.

Qatar Airways flight QR-204 was scheduled to leave Athens in Greece at 2pm on Monday and was bound for Doha in Qatar, with many on the flight planning to travel on to Melbourne.

But the flight never left the tarmac and passengers, including 7NEWS employee Jodie Grocock, labelled the entire ordeal as “appalling”.

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