What went wrong on Qantas flight?

Investigators and engineers are already working to establish what blew a hole in the belly of a Boeing 747-400 plane. The plane is now on the ground at Manila in the Philippines after the pilots brought it safely down from the drama at 29,000ft. The Qantas airliner was on a scheduled flight to Melbourne when passengers suddenly heard a loud bang, about an hour after taking off from Hong Kong. It appears to have been loud enough to have woken passengers who were sleeping. A hole up to three metres (10 feet) across had appeared in the forward cargo hold. Passengers grabbed their oxygen masks as wind whipped through the cabin and the pilots put the plane into an emergency descent. First reports from passengers suggested they believed a door had somehow come loose, but images clearly show the damage is in the plane's fuselage,... [read full story]