An exploding oxygen cylinder may have ripped open the fuselage of a Qantas jumbo jet that had to make an emergency landing, investigators said yesterday. Such a blast would have major implications for ...

Air safety investigators said the "sudden and complete release" of a pressurized oxygen bottle caused the explosion that blew a hole in the fuselage of a Qantas jet last month, forcing an emergency ...

TONY EASTLEY: Aircraft experts say it's plausible that an exploding oxygen cylinder forced a QANTAS 747 to make an emergency landing in Manila last Friday. An investigation is underway to determine ...

(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 ...

Investigators are focusing on evidence that a burst oxygen cylinder caused the large fuselage rupture that forced the crew of a depressurized Qantas 747-400 to make an emergency landing last week. The ...

More information are being disclosed about the QF30 as more passengers provide their first hand account of the flight. According to what they recollected, the aircraft did not “plunge” from 29.000 to ...

Citing security concerns, the federal government in secrecy last month ordered every airline in the United States to remove emergency oxygen in every lavatory on all 6,000 domestic commercial aircraft ...

Cathay Pacific Airways is implementing new inspection protocols and taking some staff off flight duties as the Hong Kong-based carrier continues to investigate how oxygen bottles were emptied on three ...

Qantas Airways has inspected dozens of its aircraft and notified some overseas carriers after it was discovered Qantas engineers at Melbourne airport mistakenly pumped nitrogen into the emergency ...

MH370 was travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, China, when the jet mysteriously vanished with 239 people on board. The Boeing 777 aircraft last communicated with air traffic control at 1.19am when ...

An exploding oxygen cylinder may have ripped open the fuselage of a Qantas jumbo jet that had to make an emergency landing, investigators said yesterday. Such a blast would have major implications for ...