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Uploaded by on Jul 25, 2008

A Qantas jumbo jet was forced to make an emergency landing in the Philippines after something punched a massive hole in the fuselage as the plane reached cruising altitude. Nancy Cordes reports.

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  • @marshalllucky If an airliners wing was missing before takeoff you'd have a point. Airliners are complex machines and despite having mandated regular check's some components fail and are replaced. In this case no amount of checking could have picked up the problem due to a manufacturing fault within compressed air cylinder. So in answer to your question yes they air checked regularly and no, an airliner would not be allowed to fly with an obvious safety fault.

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  • @scenicsilver HEY, WANNA GO TO AMERICA AND KILL THEM? MSG ME, I PAY UR FARE...

  • ''ALMIGHTY CRACK'', ''GAPING HOLE'', ''BIG HOLE'', ''TEAR HAPPENED JUST IN RIGHT SPOT''...COCKPITS'' ...GOSH ALL SOUNDS A BIT SEXUAL ;-O

  • @scenicsilver First of all they had a recall and this is completely different. The boeing 747 is

    the most reliable double decker ever. Its more like a routine checkup would find a weakness in

    the part and it could have been fixed.

  • @scenicsilver no you maintain it on the ground so it doesn't get problems in mid air! You know you don't maintain aircraft while they're flying, right?

  • @cheesemaster1000 How can you check if something is working in mid-air?

  • @GenuineMW2 mate thats completley out of context. cars and planes are completely different.

    The point im making is that the part was faulty.

    So if i get a gay ass toyota prius and toyota add faulty brakes that dont work and i crash my car whos fault is it.

    Its good to think once in a while

  • @scenicsilver Oh so with ur logic if u dont change the oil in ur car and it breaks u blame ur

    gay ass toyota prius.

  • @scenicsilver You know you're pretty stupid. What do you mean 'what can qantas do'? They maintain the airplane, that's what they can do... or in this (and most) cases can't do.

  • stupid americans. all of the american airline companies have the worst saftey rating

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