Midnight Mike
2008-10-07, 09:02 AM
A Qantas Airways Airbus A330 earlier today had a sudden change in altitude, resulting in around 33 people on board reportedly being injured and the pilots responding by making an emergency landing at a remote airport in Western Australia.
The Oneworld carrier says in a statement the A330-300 was en route to Perth from Singapore with 303 passengers and 10 crew on board when there was "a sudden change in altitude".
"No details are available at this stage as to what caused the altitude change," it says.
"A number of passengers and crew sustained injuries, including fractures and lacerations", as a result of the incident which occurred sometime this afternoon.
http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/20 ... itude.html (http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2008/10/07/317080/more-than-30-hurt-as-qantas-a330-suffers-sudden-altitude.html)
The Oneworld carrier says in a statement the A330-300 was en route to Perth from Singapore with 303 passengers and 10 crew on board when there was "a sudden change in altitude".
"No details are available at this stage as to what caused the altitude change," it says.
"A number of passengers and crew sustained injuries, including fractures and lacerations", as a result of the incident which occurred sometime this afternoon.
http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/20 ... itude.html (http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2008/10/07/317080/more-than-30-hurt-as-qantas-a330-suffers-sudden-altitude.html)