An interesting video taken from a passenger of the Qantas QF30 flight was released. The footage was taken after the B747-438 levelled off at 10.000 feet above the sea in bound to Manila airport. The situation in the cabin seems calm since the dive has been completed and the passengers can breath even without the need of the oxygen masks that dropped from the ceiling. The Flight Attendant are quite calm too.
David Cenciotti is a journalist based in Rome, Italy. He is the Founder and Editor of “The Aviationist”, one of the world’s most famous and read military aviation blogs. Since 1996, he has written for major worldwide magazines, including Air Forces Monthly, Combat Aircraft, and many others, covering aviation, defense, war, industry, intelligence, crime and cyberwar. He has reported from the U.S., Europe, Australia and Syria, and flown several combat planes with different air forces. He is a former 2nd Lt. of the Italian Air Force, a private pilot and a graduate in Computer Engineering. He has written five books and contributed to many more ones.
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