allardjd 1,853 Posted July 25, 2008 Report Share Posted July 25, 2008 http://my.earthlink.net/article/top?guid=20080725/48894fc0_3422_1334620080725873431198 It was a 747-400 according to the article, over the South China Sea - it landed at Manila. No mention of terrorism in the article. It sounds more like a structural failure leading to a catastrophic airframe fracture, not unlike the Aloha 737 that had the cabin roof come off in flight. It will be interesting to see if that's the conclusion or if there's something more sinister at work here. John EDIT Photos in this one... http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1469970.ece This doesn't look like the kind of hole I'd expect from an internal explosion and is probably not terror related. I'd say the forward piece of the wing fairing somehow came adrift and tore off. Link to post Share on other sites
mutley 4,498 Posted July 25, 2008 Report Share Posted July 25, 2008 Hi John, We've had quite a bit of news coverage including videos taken by people onboaed. Apparently it dropped from FL400 to FL250 but the oxygen deployed successfully and they landed safely. Phew! Cheers Link to post Share on other sites
hurricanemk1c 195 Posted July 25, 2008 Report Share Posted July 25, 2008 Hi John! I was about to post it when I saw your post! Can't be a cargo door, more of a wing box problem Kieran Link to post Share on other sites
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