Mathew Murphy and Clay LucasOctober 8, 2008
TWENTY passengers have been seriously injured - some with spinal injuries and broken noses - when their Qantas flight bound for Perth plummeted suddenly.
In all, 36 passengers aboard QF72 from Singapore were last night being treated for injuries sustained after the packed plane dropped hundreds of metres within seconds.
In a bid to rush badly injured passengers aboard the flight to hospital, the plane made an emergency landing on a remote RAAF airstrip in the tiny Western Australian town of Learmonth.
The 303 passengers and 10 crew aboard the Airbus 330-300 experienced a sudden drop in altitude.
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