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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
Qantas and the RFDS took delivery of their first aircraft in 1950, eventually receiving five and six new aircraft respectively. Qantas placed the Drover into service on its routes in what was then known as the Territory of Papua and New Guinea. Like many other aircraft types before and since, the Drover was inadequate in the demanding operating ...
Qantas Flight 30; Qantas Flight 32; Qantas Flight 72; QantasLink Flight 1737; 1954 BOAC Lockheed Constellation crash; Q. 1942 Qantas Short Empire shootdown
Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1951 (17 P) Pages in category "Aviation accidents and incidents in 1951" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
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 ...
Dashcam video shown the moment the aircraft hit and debris littered the runway. Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363 the Boeing 737 suddenly nose dived and hit the tarmac at nearly the speed of sound during a failed approach to Kazan Airport on 17 November 2013, upon impact the plane exploded and was pulverised. All 50 people were killed.
Qantas has completed what could one day be the world's longest commercial flight. Passengers on this Boeing 787 Dreamliner spent more than 19 hours up in the air, in a research-flight from London ...
The last fatal accidents suffered by Qantas were in 1951, with three fatal crashes in five months. [ 304 ] [ 305 ] 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 [ 306 ] and again in 2021 [ 307 ] and 2023.