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Qantas was considering the Boeing 777X for Sydney to London and New York, but has placed an order for up to a dozen specially adapted Airbus A350-1000 jets.
Qantas flight QF520 had to make an emergency landing in Sydney after a suspected engine failure. The plane was a Boeing 737-800, per the flight tracking websites Flightradar24 and FlightAware.
A Qantas plane made an emergency landing Friday due to what the airline said was a "contained engine failure" soon after taking off from Sydney Airport, sparking a grassfire on a nearby runway and ...
Passengers heard a ‘large bang’ and said the plane made circles in air before landing
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The incidents between 1942 and 1944 were during World War II, when Qantas Empire Airways operated on behalf of the military. [3] While strictly speaking not accidents, the shootdowns of G-AETZ and G-AEUH are included for completeness. In 2014 and 2023, Qantas was rated the world's safest airline by Airline Ratings. [4]
A Boeing 707 and Boeing 747-200 at Longreach's Qantas Founders Outback Museum. Qantas has had a varied fleet since the airline's inception. Following its foundation shortly after the end of the First World War, the first aircraft to serve in the fleet was the Avro 504K, a small biplane.
Last month Qantas announced a record pre-tax annual profit of nearly 2.5 billion Australian dollars ($1.6 billion), up from a loss of almost AU$2 billion the previous year.