CANBERRA, Australia - Australian airline Qantas will preserve its track record of never losing a jet plane in an accident by repairing a gaping hole in the side of a jetliner caused by an exploding oxygen bottle, the airline said Thursday.
The explosion last Friday during a flight from London to the Australian city of Melbourne forced the pilots of the Boeing 747-400 to rapidly descend thousands of feet and make an emergency landing in the Philippines with four instrument systems disabled, accident investigators said Wednesday.
But the world's second oldest airline after KLM Royal Dutch Airlines