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16 July 1951 Huon Gulf near Lae, Papua New Guinea: de Havilland Australia DHA-3 Drover: VH-EBQ Crashed in sea after centre propeller failure, in heavy rain half a mile from the coast. Cargo of gold doré bars worth £36,000 (A$1.7 million 2022) was never found. 7 7 [28] [29] 21 September 1951
The pilot and the six passengers on board were killed. This was the first of three fatal crashes suffered by Qantas over a period of four months in 1951. At the time of the crash the aircraft was only ten months old. [4] [5] [6]
Qantas Flight 30; Qantas Flight 32; Qantas Flight 72; QantasLink Flight 1737; 1954 BOAC Lockheed Constellation crash; Q. 1942 Qantas Short Empire shootdown
A Qantas Airways flight made an emergency landing in Sydney after it suffered an engine failure shortly after take-off, causing a grassfire at a runway.. Emergency services rushed to the runway ...
1951 Aradan Aeroflot An-2 crash; 1951 LOT Li-2 Tuszyn air disaster; 1951 Misrair SNCASE Languedoc crash; 1951 Rio do Sal Linhas Aéreas Paulistas C-47 crash; A.
In the company bar, Scott runs into a test pilot, an old friend from WWII, who tells him about the recent crash of a Reindeer in Labrador. The plane had flown 1407 hours. The tail was never found, the pilot was blamed, and Scott suspects Honey's theory is correct. He informs Sir John, the head of RAE, who puts the vibration test on a 24-hour basis.
The 1942 Qantas Short Empire shoot-down was an incident that occurred in the early days of the Pacific War during World War II. A Short Empire flying boat airliner, Corio , operated by Qantas was shot down by Japanese aircraft off the coast of West Timor , Dutch East Indies , on 30 January 1942, killing 13 of the occupants.
The song has been used in Qantas's safety videos since 2018. [264] [265] Qantas is the main sponsor of the Australia national rugby union team. [266] Qantas sponsors the Socceroos, Australia's national association football team. [267] Qantas was the naming rights sponsor for the Formula One Australian Grand Prix from 2010 until 2012. [268]