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Panic and injured during an evacuation from a Qantas jumbo

Sydney, Australia - A plane chute didn't work properly

5 passengers of QF6 flight operated by Qantas were hurt for a malfunctioning of the Boeing 747 emergency chute; indeed the airplane, coming from Frankfurt via Singapore, would have had a defect to the brakes of an undercarriage during the landing at the International Airport of Sydney. Indeed an engineer has seen, from the control tower, flames spreading from the undercarriage and has allerted immediately...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 47443
Rome, Italy, 07/02/2003 12:36
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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