747 Pilot 18 years
There are some suggestions it failed (at least in parts of the cabin):
Interesting. The finger of blame is starting to point to the bottle, not atmospheric re-entry of golf clubs, or horses wild in the freight hold! Rather than trying to sort out fatigue issues that really require expert examination and testing, I think of more interest is the connection with extraneous factors- in this case oxygen bottles. Individual mask failures are irrelevant, the question is did supply fail to large areas of the cabin?
I think we can do without the sensationalism of yet another aviation 'writer' in the press:
Aviation writer Ben Sandilands said Qantas and its passengers were lucky the disaster happened near an airport. "If it had happened on some other Qantas routes we'd be reporting that they were sending the warships out to pick up the bodies."
More aviation tosh from someone out for a buck! It would just have meant flying for rather a long time at 10,000' to the nearest suitable airport! Even the Pacific has some in those interminable wastes!