ah priaprism - the facts are plane plunged from fl 30/33 to pretty low in xx minutes. If you had been a passenger no doubt you would have ordered another g and t and gone back to reading your favourite encyclopaedia. Pictures aside, and hack exaggeration understood, let's just say a plane full of pax made an emergency in Manila with a hole of whatever size in whatever side, upon landing the crew were lauded. No worries mate, keep sucking in those aussie cheeks - hope the Qantas shares don't dip too radically .. like the 744...