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Safety and labor concerns tarnish the Qantas image
Sydney :: Australia | about 1 year ago
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A string of high-altitude scares combined with a protracted labor dispute have battered the airline's reputation as the world's safest carrier. In a scene from the 1988 Oscar-winning film "Rain Man," Raymond Babbitt, the autistic character played by Dustin...
Tags: Qantas
Qantas terror flight cause found
Perth :: Australia | about 1 year ago
Credibility uko Narushima and Paul Bibby October 15, 2008 THE dramatic plunge of a Qantas jet that injured 74 passengers last week was caused by a faulty computer component that sent "erratic and erroneous information" to the plane's flight control system, air transport...
Tags: Qantas, Australian Transport Safety Bureau, Perth, Singapore, flight control, Western Australia, qantas jet, Julian Walsh, control computers, computers fault
Qantas near miss ... this time in a bus
Sydney :: Australia | about 1 year ago
Credibility Seven people were hurt when a Qantas bus and a car had a near miss on the air side of Sydney Airport's Qantas domestic terminal today. A Qantas spokesman said the bus was taking passengers from the international terminal to the airline's domestic terminal...
Tags: Qantas, qantas bus
New Pacific Blue Auckland – Sydney Flights
Auckland :: New Zealand | about 1 year ago
Credibility Brett Godfrey said that Pacific Blue has been a growth story in the past twelve months, launching a New Zealand domestic airline and announcing a range of new international routes and destinations. “Pacific Blue’s combination of a modern fleet, high quality...
Tags: Gold Coast, Air New Zealand, Auckland, Jetstar, Sydney, Qantas
Qantas workers to negotiate new contract conditions
Sydney :: Australia | about 1 year ago
Credibility Dave Oliver, says workers have expressed concerns about the quality of the maintenance work being carried out overseas. "Qantas's reputation for being the safest airline in the world didn't happen by accident," he said. "It happened by them maintaining...
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Qantas plunge plane nosedived twice
Canberra :: Australia | about 1 year ago
Credibility The Australian Transport Safety Bureau said the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder from QF72 arrived in Canberra late on Wednesday night. A preliminary review of the data showed that the plane climbed 200 feet from its crusing level of 37,000...
Tags: Qantas, qantas plane, cruising level
Qantas takes A380 to NZ for VIP joyride
Auckland :: New Zealand | about 1 year ago
Credibility Qantas takes A380 to New Zealand for VIP outing October 09, 2008 01:52pm NEW Zealanders will get their first glimpse of the new A380 aircraft as Qantas flies its flagship superjumbo into Auckland tonight. The first Qantas A380, named Nancy-Bird Walton...
Tags: superjumbo, Auckland International Airport, Auckland Airport, Qantas, Australia
Laptop possible cause for Qantas plunge
The Qantas Airbus that plunged approximately 5,000 feet in 5 seconds causing over 70 people to be injured, may have had it's instrumental devices hampered by a Laptop or Mobile phone. Recently a passenger using a wireless mouse sent a Qantas plane 3...
Did laptop cause Qantas flight plunge?
Perth :: Australia | about 1 year ago
Credibility One has told of how he heard a loud bang followed by the screams and groans of passengers being thrown about the cabin and slammed against the roof as the Airbus went into a steep dive off Western Australia on Tuesday. Safety officials yesterday began...
Tags: Singapore-Perth, Qantas, Western Australia, qantas flight, qantas jet, jet plunging, emergency landing, elevator control, seriously injured, Exmouth Hospital
Qantas panned in US poll
Sydney :: Australia | about 1 year ago
Credibility American travel magazine has panned Sydney Airport and Qantas in an annual poll of readers. The Conde Nast Traveler magazine's annual survey of business world travellers, published in its October edition, gave Australia's busiest airport a 48.2 rating...
Tags: travel magazine, Qantas
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