A Qantas passenger airliner en route from Hong Kong to Melbourne in Australia was forced to land in Manila, the Philippines capital, on Friday after a hole appeared in the fuselage of the Boeing 747-400 and the cabin decompressed.Qantas pilot Captain John Francis Bartels, right, looking at the hole of a Qantas Airways Boeing 747 after it made an emergency landing at the international airport in Manila on Friday.
The airline, which has one of the world’s best safety records and prides itself on never losing a jet in a major crash, said all 346 passengers and 19 crew aboard flight QF 30 disembarked without injury. The flight had originated in London.
