An air safety investigator says it appears shrapnel from an oxygen cylinder explosion aboard a packed Qantas jetliner entered the passenger cabin and sheared off part of a door handle.
The explosion last Friday during a flight from London to Melbourne blew a large hole in the side of the Boeing 747-400, causing the pilots to rapidly descend thousands of feet (meters) and make an emergency landing in the Philippines.
Australian Transport Safety Bureau official Julian Walsh says part of the oxygen tank struck the door handle, sheared off part of it and knocked it half-way out of position.
But he says "there was never any danger of the door opening" because it is designed never to be opened while the plane is in the air.
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