Experts study whether oxygen tank exploded on jet (AP)

By newscrape.com in World on July 28th, 2008

An airline mechanic looks at the damaged right wing fuselage of a Qantas Airways Boeing 747-400 passenger plane following an emergency landing at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Friday July 25, 2008 in Manila, Philippines. The plane, with 350 passengers and 19 crew, was enroute to Australia from London when a loud bang punched a hole in the right wing fuselage, passengers said. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)AP - Australian investigators are focusing on the possibility that an oxygen cylinder could have exploded mid-flight on a Qantas jumbo jet that made an emergency landing in the Philippines with a giant hole in its fuselage, officials said Sunday.


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