Qantas Passengers Lucky To Survive

Details are coming to light just how lucky the passengers on the Qantas A80 that had to make an emergency landing at Singapore airport really were. Research into the investigation has revealed that shards of shrapnel had actually punctured the fuel tank.

Experts say it was a miracle the huge super jumbo didn’t explode in the sky and had the fuel leaking from the punctured tank ignited this would have been the outcome. Fairfax media an Australian media company claim they have seen reports showing metal parts of the engine shot through the fuel line and caused major tears in the wing and punctured the fuel tank.

If that wasn’t enough amid this chaos the pilots were faced with multiple system error messages in the cockpit which took an hour to work through. Vice-president of the Australian and International Pilots Association Richard Woodward said the crew had faced an unprecedented number of failures that they wouldn’t have been trained for.