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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]
Qantas Flight 30; Qantas Flight 32; Qantas Flight 72; QantasLink Flight 1737; 1954 BOAC Lockheed Constellation crash; Q. 1942 Qantas Short Empire shootdown
Qantas Flight 32 was a regularly scheduled passenger flight from London to Sydney via Singapore. On 4 November 2010, the aircraft operating the route, an Airbus A380 , suffered an uncontained failure in one of its four Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engines.
The last fatal accidents suffered by Qantas were in 1951, with three fatal crashes in five months. [302] [303] Qantas' safety record allows the airline to be officially known as the world's safest airline for seven years in a row from 2012 until 2019 [304] and again in 2021 [305] and 2023. [306]
Qantas 1 (QF1, QFA1) was a Qantas passenger flight between Sydney and London. On 23 September 1999, the aircraft operating as Flight 1 had departed from Sydney that day, and was involved in a runway overrun accident at Don Mueang International Airport in Bangkok as it was landing for a stopover.
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