Holy Qantas, Batman!!

The passengers will be given hotel accommodation while the aircraft is being repaired, said Alfonso Cusi, the airport’s general manager.
That's gonna be some hotel stay.
 
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25843853

You gotta see the pictures... could it have been a bomb in the cargo area?



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Scary...

A quick swabbing for explosive residue would answer the bomb question, I suppose.

But, haven't there been other 747s with fatigue failures? I seem to remember at least one (maybe more) Japanese-operated 747s that had problems.


Trapper John
 
Scary...

A quick swabbing for explosive residue would answer the bomb question, I suppose.

Not only that, but explosives would have burned. No ash or scorch marks on that white fuselage.

Scary...
But, haven't there been other 747s with fatigue failures? I seem to remember at least one (maybe more) Japanese-operated 747s that had problems.

I remember a few years back when a baggage door tore from another 747 and left a very-similar hole.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE4DA1F3BF936A15751C0A96F948260

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Ron Wanttaja
 
The March 2008 issue of AMT magazine had an article on this. Evidently the center tank was purged with a contaminated gas (supposed to be pure O2).

That is, if the accident plane is the same as mentioned in the article....
 
>Evidently the center tank was purged with a contaminated gas (supposed to be pure O2).

Pure O2? I hope not.
 
The March 2008 issue of AMT magazine had an article on this. Evidently the center tank was purged with a contaminated gas (supposed to be pure O2).

That is, if the accident plane is the same as mentioned in the article....
O2? Shouldn't it have been purged with something inert, like Nitrogen?
 
Paper this morning states they are concentrating on an oxygen canister which may have exploded.
 
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