Qantas plane makes emergency landing at Australia's Perth airport

A Qantas plane was reportedly forced to make an emergency landing at a Perth airport in Australia on Friday with the main cause for the disruption still undergoing investigation.

Local media reported that 102 people were evacuated from the plane after reports of fumes in the cockpit of the QantasLink aircraft were spotted, forcing passengers to disembark using emergency slides.

Perth Airport had then tweeted that the Qantas QF1623 had landed safely.

A caller to Radio 6PR, a local Australian radio station had claimed that he was watching the whole incident unfold from the observation deck when the plane suddenly stopped on the runway.

"A Qantas-link aircraft... it's landed and it's gone up the end of the runway," he said.

"It just stopped... it had two fire tenders following it and now a third one has turned up and they put the slide up."

"People (passengers) are gathered at the end of the runway," the unnamed caller said.

Western Australian police said the evacuation was sparked by fumes in the cockpit just before mid-day.

In a statement, Qantas said no emergency landing was requested by the pilots.

"However emergency services are in attendance as a normal precaution," it said.

The plane was travelling from Newman to Perth, and landed at 1136 local time (AEST) on Friday.

Qantas said all 97 passengers and five crew members were safe and had been accounted for. Endit