Bomb or corrosion on the Qantas 747?

Question

Bomb or corrosion on the Qantas 747?

Answer 1

Hardly a bomb. I t would have been wayyyy worse if it was a bomb. And the baggage you can see in the hole is intact and a bomb would probably have ripped it apart. Im guessing metal fatigue aswell.

Answer 2

No they have ruled out a bomb already, corrosion seems the most likely, and they were incredibly lucky i must say

Answer 3

This is not a bomb, that would blow it out of the skies.

It is probably intergranular or dissimilar metal corrosion which was not detected. Bad inspection procedures is my guess.

As this is the first major incident that Quantas has had in 70 years of flying, is it down to outsourcing the maintenance to Malaysia?

Answer 4

Corrosion.

Answer 5

if that was a bomb the plane would be scattered for miles by now with no survivors

metal fatigue would be my guess

Answer 6

It won't have been a bomb, it may have hit something small and hard.

Even a small puncture can cause explosive decompression and rip through the aluminium.

Answer 7

Doubt it was a bomb, it would have been blown out of the sky. Whatever it was, it's bound to be covered up in any case.

And to think that Qantas was my choice of airline to go to Australia! Singapore airlines it is.

Answer 8

probably a bomb, airlines always check their aircraft for corrosion, anythign that is eroding is replaced immediately

Answer 9

It was definitely a bomb. A real little bomb but a bomb. I think it was put there by someone who was mad about global warming and that Qantas stopped giving out peanuts to the passengers.

Answer 10

Oh s**t!.

Here we go again, another conspiracy made up by someone with an over-active imagination and nothing to do.

Corrosion!, isn't that a big enough c**k up for you?.

Answer 11

Alien air attack.  Or corrosion.  A bomb=no plane.  I also question what damaged the nose of that other aircraft just recently.

Answer 12

Corrosion, the edges would be jagged if there had been an explosion.

Apparently at a previous inspection some abnormality in that panel had been noted. Quantas has a clean sheet, never a disaster (life lost), so they were lucky there.

Well, I was wrong there, they are querying an oxygen tank explosion, but have also said corrosion had been reported in a routine check.

Answer 13

I say bomb. NO way something that big missed inspection.