Is it true that Qantas never crash?

Question

Was Raymond (Rainman) right?

Answer 1

Qantas is the name and callsign of the world's third oldest continuously running independent airline behind KLM and Avianca.
Qantas is an acronym for "Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services."
Qantas was founded in Queensland on 16 November 1920.

However, the company's official line is that it has never lost a "jet" aircraft.
Prior to the jet era, Qantas had fatal crashes.
One was on 16 July 1951, when De Havilland Drover crashed in New Guinea after an engine failure, killing all seven passengers and crew.
Other fatal accidents occurred in 1927, 1934, 1942, 1943 (×2), and 1944.
Qantas' record in the jet era was spotless until Boeing 747-400 , carrying 407 passengers and crew, over-ran the runway by 220 metres, ending up in a golf course, while landing in a rainstorm at Bangkok on 23 September 1999, there were no fatalities.

Answer 2

Qantas Never Crashed

Answer 3

They have had several of their planes crash. They have never technically had a 'jet' crash but in between 1927 and 1951 they had a total of eight crashes resulting in 62 deaths. Most of these were during WWII. They also wrote off a Super Contellation aircraft in 1960 with no fatalities. Also they had one of their 747s heavily damaged in a runway excursion and it (reportedly) cost more to repair the aircraft that it would have to buy a new one, but it prevented a hull-loss accident from being registered. From a safety point of view (without all the nit picking) Qantas has the best safety culture in the industry and their ideas are widely implemented (with varying degrees of success) in other companies.

Answer 4

Qantas have had a fairly enviable record for some years, but there have been air safety incidents from time to time. KL was one, but there have been others.

I'm not sure if this record will be maintained if the accountants that continue to press for major maintenance to be done off-shore have their way.

(I'm not a Qantas engineer!)

Answer 5

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RE:
Is it true that Qantas never crash?
Was Raymond (Rainman) right?

Answer 6

He was when he said that, I think there has been a Qantas crash since Rainman was made, though.

Answer 7

Qantas have never had a serious crash that has endangered the lives of their passengers. They have had a few emergency landings and have overshot the runway, but never had any deaths.

Answer 8

They have had crashes - a Jumbo went off the end of a runway at Kuala Lumpur a few years ago. No one has ever died as a result of a crash. Rumour has it that they spent more than the plane was worth to repair the KL crash plane so they could claim their safety record, but no one really knows.

Answer 9

They have a perfect flight record and have had no crashes. That said, once one of their planes hit another plane at an airport (while taxiing? on the ground) causing damage. Rather than write-off the plane they repaired it to keep their perfect flight record.

Answer 10

They have kept this record by giving their smaller regional service a different name and not marking them with the Flying Kangaroo.