QANTAS faced a potential disaster on Monday when a jumbo jet en route from London lost all main electrical power and was forced to land on battery back-up.
Flight QF2 with 344 passengers on board was about 15 minutes from Bangkok when the highly unusual failure took place and a back-up system kicked in.
With the batteries providing power for up to an hour, aviation sources said the failure would have been a disaster if it had occurred further out to sea.
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