Does anyone have a link to this plane spotters forum listed below?
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Plane hole 'not due to corrosion'
'Fingers crossed'
In an online planespotters' forum in February, participants referred to the detection of "serious corrosion issues" in the 17-year-old Boeing 747-438 Longreach during a maintenance check at Avalon airport in March.
Aviation experts say corrosion could have been enough to have caused the 2.5-3m hole in the fuselage - if even a small section of the plane's aluminium skin was able to break free, the enormous pressures generated at cruising altitude could have done the rest.