A passenger today described the terror of being on a packed passenger jumbo jet when a gaping hole appeared in the fuselage 30,000ft in the air. George Kierans, from Drogheda, and his wife were on the Qantas Boeing 747 which was flying from London to Melbourne when flooring gave way, part of the ceiling collapsed and debris flew into the first class cabin. Frightened passengers, some of whom were woken up by a loud bang, had to don oxygen masks as the plane descended after losing cabin pressure on the Hong Kong-Melbourne leg of the flight today. "It was just in the middle of when the meals were being served. There was a loud explosion in the cabin and the plane suddenly plummeted from the sky," said Mr Kierans. "At that stage obviously oxygen masks and everything fell down and nobody had any idea what was going on." Film shot...
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