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Qantas 747 similar to the one involved A Qantas Airlines Boeing 747 departing Hong Kong for Australia today suffered a rapid or explosive decompression at altitude and was forced to make an emergency descent followed by an emergency landing at Manila in the Philippines. All passengers and crew departed the aircraft safely. There were a total of 346 passengers and 19 crew on board the aircraft when a section just forward of the starboard mainwing leading edge despressurised the hull. The crew apparently then initiated an emergency descent, oxygen masks being dropped for the passengers. The emergency descent is made in order to reach a safe altitude at which it is possible to breathe normally without oxygen assistance. The aircraft then made a declared emergency landing at Manila in the Phillipines where the extent of the... [read full story]
