The colourful shower of small, coloured pieces of paper began as the plane passed over Brisbane, approximately 730 kilometres from its starting point.
Staff said that passengers were "equally delighted and terrified" by the multicoloured swirl issuing from the wing turbines, which was visible from window-side passenger seats.
The shenanigans didn't stop there, as, upon finally landing the plane, more than 2 hours after the confetti explosion began, staff opened the overhead luggage compartments to discover a troop of performing monkeys and tiny piglets.
The monkeys then climbed on top of the piglets and rode them around the inside of the cabin, whilst juggling red and yellow balls.
Passenger reactions ranged from admiration and adoration of the impossibly small riders, to disgust that monkeys and piglets had been rifling through passenger luggage.
"I found it terribly amusing," Victorian secondary school teacher Glenda Murray said.
"There's only one thing cuter than baby monkeys and baby piglets. And that's baby monkeys riding baby piglets. While juggling."
It is unknown exactly where the performing troupe came from, or how they got onto the plane at Sydney airport.
"At this point in time, we're running through a backlog of our security checks, and we're just trying to ascertain exactly how this breach has occurred," one Qantas security official said.
Qantas firmly denied suggestions that this latest plane fault is proof that the airline has become a circus.
"We are currently investigating the exact reason for the confetti and performing animals. We are confident that it is not a problem affecting other planes in this fleet," a spokeswoman said.
UPDATE: 6.45
It has been revealed that the baby monkeys and pigs were escaped from a Japanese zoo, where baby monkeys and baby piglets have been specially bred from a performing pair.
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