Qantas Jet Blast Investigation Focuses On Oxygen Tank
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}An investigator says a valve and other fragments that could be from a missing oxygen tank have been found in a Qantas jet that had its fuselage ripped open mid-flight.
The missing tank has become the focus of the probe into what tore open a car-sized hole in the plane 29,000 feet and forced an emergency landing in the Philippines on Friday.
Neville Blyth, a senior investigator from the Australian Transport and Safety Bureau, told a news conference Monday that the fragments would be tested to see if they came from the tank, which is designed to provide passengers emergency oxygen.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}He says the fragments were found close to where the missing tank was stored.