CANBERRA, Australia — An air safety investigator says part of an oxygen cylinder exploded through the floor of the passenger cabin of a Qantas jumbo jet over the South China Sea last week.
The focus on what created a hole the size of a car in the plane’s fuselage at 29,000 feet last Friday had narrowed on the missing oxygen tank. The jet carrying 365 people was diverted to the Philippines.
Julian Walsh, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau’s director of aviation safety, said the oxygen bottle appeared to have exploded beneath the cabin.
Walsh told reporters that the ATSB can confirm that it appears that part of an oxygen cylinder and valve entered the passenger cabin and impacted” a door handle.
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