Nobody injured, but you can imagine how scared the passengers were... flying with a hole of 2x3m in the fuselage in front of the wing. Luckily it was in the cargo area and not the cabin.

A passenger plane en route from London to Melbourne has made an emergency landing in the Philippines after a large hole appeared in its fuselage.

Qantas Airways said its Boeing 747-400, with 346 passengers and 19 crew, diverted to Manila shortly after leaving Hong Kong and landed safely...

Read here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7524733.stm