Qantas Flight 30 · South China Sea
On July 25, 2008, Qantas Flight 30 (South China Sea). No one was seriously hurt.
- Date
- July 25, 2008
- Place
- South China Sea
- Operator
- Qantas Airways
- Killed
- 0
- Position
- 14.510°N, 121.022°E
- Wikidata ID
- Q7266512
From Wikipedia
Qantas Flight 30 was a scheduled flight from London Heathrow to Melbourne with a stopover in Hong Kong on 25 July 2008, operated by Qantas on a Boeing 747-400. The flight was interrupted on the Hong Kong to Melbourne leg by an exploding oxygen tank that ruptured the fuselage just forward of the starboard wing root. 53-year-old Captain John Bartels (who had flown for Qantas for 25 years and the Royal Australian Navy for 7 years) and his co-pilots, Bernd Werninghaus and Paul Tabac, made an emergency descent to a breathable altitude of about 10,000 feet (3,048 m) and diverted to Ninoy Aquino International Airport, Metro Manila, Philippines. There were no injuries.
Text from Wikipedia, “Qantas Flight 30”, CC BY-SA 4.0; shortened to the introduction. Authors.
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