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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4395076.ece
From Times Online
July 25, 2008
“Air passengers’ mid-flight terror as hole appears in fuselage”
(AFP)
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Passengers have described their terror as the plane on which they were travelling was forced to make an emergency landing after a door “popped” midflight, leaving a hole in the side of the fuselage.
Qantas flight QF30, with 300 passengers and crew on board plunged 20,000 feet after the faulty door “popped”, causing an “explosive” depressurisation. The Boeing 747, flying from London to Melbourne had just taken off from a stop-over in Hong Kong when the incident happened. As the plane dropped from 30,000 feet to 10,000 feet, oxygen masks dropped from the ceiling.
Debra Manchester, a passenger in First Class, said there was a “huge bang” and a “massive rush of wind,” with debris swirling around the cabin. Mrs Manchester, a housewife from Buckinghamshire, said there was an atmosphere of chaos as passengers struggled to put their oxygen masks on.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Brendan McClements, an Australian businessman, said that when the passengers disembarked, they could see a large hole in the side of the plane on the “driver’s side” - or right hand side of the fuselage. “We could see it from where we were standing and you could see straight through into the hold of the plane,” he said. Mrs Manchester added that luggage was “hanging out” of the hole where the hold had been, and that the emergency door above appeared to have come loose.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “”The pilot said to us: “Look, we don’t really know what happened. There is a hole in the side of the plane and the cabin depressurised so we had to come down.”
Mrs Manchester claimed that 20 minutes after the plane first took off from Heathrow, she heard a loud bang near the faulty door. “You have to wonder if that explosion could have caused the second one,” she said.”
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http://www.tsa.gov/press/happenings/raleigh_guns.shtm
Four days, two loaded guns at Raleigh-Durham International
News & Happenings
May 30, 2008
Transportation Security Officers discovered two loaded guns during the Memorial Day holiday weekend at Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU).
Transportation Security Officer Jay Helm was operating an X-ray machine on May 23 when he spotted a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun loaded with eight rounds in a passenger’s carry-on bag. Three days later, TSO Patrick Barry was at the X-ray when he identified a .22 magnum loaded with five rounds in a passenger’s carry-on.
Both passengers were arrested and cited for carrying a concealed weapon.
“These discoveries illustrate once again why our officers must always be on alert,” said Michael Zunk, TSA federal security director for Raleigh-Durham.
Helm has been with TSA for more than four years, while Barry has nearly two years experience as a TSO.