I thought it was just another quiet Friday working day, when I over heard in the Manila Tower frequency that a plane is about to have an emergency landing. MIAA Fire, Rescue, and Safety personnel were alerted. Then minutes later, my phone rang, it’s the secretary of our General Manager asking why a Qantas Boeing 747-400 landed — quite unsual, since QF (Qantas Airways) flights are mostly at night. That’s the time I realized that the emergency landing was that QF 030 flight from Hongkong bound to Melbourne. Here are some pictures that I had taken using an Olympus u790SW digital camera:


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2 thoughts on “QF030 Emergency Landing at NAIA”
  1. […] keep you updated as news becomes available. Meanwhile, you might want to check out these photos that Bob Reyes took of the plane sitting on the tarmac in Manila’s Ninoy Aquino International […]

  2. Great post! Its very imformative and I think it is very important to be prepared for some emergencies in order to lessen some not good posibilities might happen.

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