MANILA, Philippines — Australian investigators are focusing on the possibility that an oxygen cylinder could have exploded mid-flight on a Qantas jumbo jet that made an emergency landing in the ...
(Adds safety investigators comments in Manila) By Michael Perry SYDNEY, July 27 (Reuters) - Qantas was ordered on Sunday to check all oxygen bottles on its fleet of Boeing 747s after investigators ...
CANBERRA, Australia — An oxygen tank exploded and blew a car-sized hole in a Qantas jet last month, air safety officials said Friday, but investigators appear to be no closer to figuring out why. The ...
There is no evidence of there being a systematic safety problem with aircraft oxygen bottles, says Australian investigators. The findings are published in their latest report into a July 2008 accident ...
CANBERRA, Australia — Air safety investigators confirmed Friday that an exploding oxygen cylinder ripped a gaping hole in a Qantas jet’s fuselage midflight last month, but said they were no closer to ...
Australia’s Qantas Airways is carrying out inspections of oxygen bottles on its entire Boeing 747-400 fleet, following an incident on 25 July in which one of its aircraft was forced to make an ...
Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways on Tuesday said it had launched an investigation after a dozen oxygen bottles used by cabin crew in emergencies were found empty, or partially empty, on two of its ...