What did Quantas have to say about their emergency landing and blaming it on rust?
Qantas denies rust to blame for emergency landing Safety concerns were raised as long ago as February about the Qantas aircraft that had to make an emergency landing after a 9ft hole opened up in its fuselage at 29,000 feet, it has emerged. Contributors to an international online aviation forum referred at the time to rust being found during a maintenance check and reports in Australia stated that corrosion had been found during a refurbishment earlier this year. The plane had been en route between London and Melbourne when it was forced to make an emergency landing in the Philippines. Qantas sought to play down the reports, saying “nothing out of the ordinary” had been discovered during the cabin upgrade. But as speculation mounted and passengers’ stories grew ever more vivid, the airline’s chief executive Geoff Dixon was forced to hold a news conference to address the issue. He said that while corrosion was commonly found in parts of all aircraft, there was none reported where the re
