hi plavt....u are right...refer to United Air Lines not United Airlines...Plavt wrote:Seems I was referring to the same report don't know quite why I was thinking of different incident, still no harm done.
Not quite true, they have never had a fatality in a PASSENGER JET accident. Lots of near misses though, this being one of them.ScoobyDoes wrote:Qantas is one of the last remaining airlines NEVER to have lost a passenger in its history.
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You may or may not have seen my earlier posting; I am told Qantas had a serious accident in the 1930's but there were no incidents since*. However, I do not have enough information to be sure. Maybe Saint can help with that one.QRM wrote:Qantas is one of the last remaining airlines NEVER to have lost a passenger in its history.
The relevant point; when TWA800 crashed, CNN spent all day immediately afterwards either speculating or creating numerous speculations yet most if not all investigations take months to complete.sierra2469alpha wrote:errrmmmm...untrue
And before we all start making some blatant assumptions, I'd suggest we wait until the official investigators finish their work.
Not that I dont want to take credit for a somewhat incorrect statement but I think you will find it was scoobyD that made that assumption.Plavt wrote:You may or may not have seen my earlier posting; I am told Qantas had a serious accident in the 1930's but there were no incidents since*. However, I do not have enough information to be sure. Maybe Saint can help with that one.QRM wrote:Qantas is one of the last remaining airlines NEVER to have lost a passenger in its history.
* Could that have been a cargo plane and could it have been before the airline was known as Qantas? I have no idea.
That's what happens when you have been here a few years in the local environmentdurain wrote:i think ksl is speaking singlish, hence qantas is quantas.mules wrote:fyi - couldn't help but comment, QANTAS has no "U" in it. It's an acronym, much like SIA, JAL, etc just a little longer!
Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services
QRM wrote:Not quite true, they have never had a fatality in a PASSENGER JET accident. Lots of near misses though, this being one of them.ScoobyDoes wrote:Qantas is one of the last remaining airlines NEVER to have lost a passenger in its history.
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For all you anorak types out there here is a surprising large list of airlines with no fatalities
I think you may have misunderstood me, my original posting (about the fourth one down and prior to anything that ScoobyD says) says much the same thing and as I said I don't have enough information to know whether or not it is true. No doubt you have already noticed the list you quote doesn't have anything earlier than the fifties. In that era investigating bodies might not have existed in the form they do today.QRM wrote:
Not that I dont want to take credit for a somewhat incorrect statement but I think you will find it was scoobyD that made that assumption.
Qantas had plenty of pre-jet fatalities
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