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Qantas plane makes safe emergency landing in Manila

Fri Jul 25, 2008 1:47am EDT

MANILA, July 25 (Reuters) - A Qantas Airways flight from Hong Kong to Melbourne made an emergency landing in Manila on Friday due to cabin pressurisation problems, airport officials said.

They said the Boeing 747-400 landed safely and passengers disembarked without incident.

There were around 300 passengers on board. A spokeswoman for Qantas said they were all safe. (Reporting by Karen Lema; Editing by Valerie Lee)



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