Qantas 747 - decompression emergency

[chris]

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,24076247-5001021,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7524733.stm

Emergency decent of 20,000ft as well. They were quite lucky - that's a huge hole in the side of the plane. :eek:

It's VH-OJK, an RR engined B747-400. The BBC link above has onboard video of the landing (and flight at 10,000ft)

http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/uriks/article2559146.ece

More photos on this Norwegian site.

CNN - unedited video:
http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2008/07/25/vo.philippines.emergency.landing.ap?iref=mpvideosv iew

[chris]

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24079965-29277,00.html

Now I remember why this plane seemed familiar - it was the one that was grounded a while back when they did the interior refit. I seem to remember there was quite a big media circus over corrosion issues.

I didn't realise that VH-OJK was 17 years old though..

[chris]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article4384017.ece

Exploding crew oxygen tanks now considered the cause of this decompression. But how they managed to explode is still a mystery.

[chris]

Maybe they didn't explode:

http://www.casa.gov.au/airworth/airwd/ADfiles/OVER/B747/B747-349.pdf

See this directive.