Bulkhead Failure Cited in Plunge of Thai Jet
A rear bulkhead rupture caused the loss of pressure and control that sent a Thai airliner into a five-mile plunge in which 62 of the 247 people aboard were injured, a Japanese investigator said Monday.
The A-300 Airbus made an emergency landing at Osaka after the near-disaster Sunday night.
Hiroshi Fujiwara, deputy chief investigator of Japan’s Aviation Accident Investigation Commission, told reporters after inspecting the plane that it had ruptures in the rear pressure bulkhead that left a pattern like a pie cut into three pieces.
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