Flight turned back after take-off

Qantas A380 superjumbo flight from Los Angeles to Melbourne turned back an hour after take-off when a water leak flooded the plane's aisles, said the passengers on Thursday.

The flight returned to Los Angeles International Airport on Wednesday due to water leak.

Qantas said while there were no safety concerns following the leak, the captain decided to turn back "in the interests of passenger comfort".

"Crew on board did everything they could to help customers, including moving them to unaffected areas and providing spare blankets so they could stay dry,"

-  Qantas

Passengers were put up in hotels for the night and engineers were working to fix the problem.

"All the passengers in the middle rows, all the middle rows towards the back, started jumping up" said a passengers .

Hollywood actress Nicole Yvette Brown, who was also on the flight, told broadcaster CNN it was the "scariest thing I've ever seen" .

All of a sudden it looked like a trickle at first and I thought someone had spilled like a soda or a pop or something,