List of Qantas fatal accidents
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Short S.23 Empire flying boat VH-ABB, which crashed in 1944.
While Qantas has never had a fatal jet airliner accident, the Australian national airline suffered several losses in its early days before the widespread adoption of the jet engine in civilian aviation.[1] These were mainly biplanes or flying boats servicing routes in Queensland and New Guinea.[2] 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 an accident, the shooting-down of G-AEUH is included for completeness.
| Date |
Location |
Aircraft type |
Registration |
Description |
Aboard |
Fatalities |
References |
| 24 March 1927 |
Tambo, Australia |
de Havilland DH.9C |
G-AUED |
Stalled at low altitude on approach to land. |
3 |
3 |
[4][5] |
| 4 September 1928 |
Adelaide Hills, Australia |
de Havilland DH.50J |
G-AUHI |
Following a tour carrying Sir John Salmond, aircraft departed Adelaide piloted by C. W. A. Scott with engineer as passenger; lost control in cloud during attempt to cross the Adelaide Hills and aircraft crashed and caught fire killing the engineer. See C. W. A. Scott's DH.50J Hermes, fatal crash. |
2 |
1 |
[6] |
| 3 October 1934 |
Near Winton, Australia |
de Havilland DH.50A |
VH-UHE |
Crashed after in-flight loss of control, possibly stalled at low altitude in dusty low-visibility conditions. |
3 |
3 |
[7] |
| 15 November 1934 |
Near Longreach, Australia |
de Havilland DH.86 |
VH-USG |
Crashed on its delivery flight from England to Brisbane after in-flight loss of control, probably due to the type's design deficiencies. |
4 |
4 |
[8][9][10][11][12] |
| 30 January 1942 |
Timor Sea off Kupang |
Short S.23 Empire Flying Boat |
G-AEUH |
Shot down by Japanese aircraft; ex-Qantas VH-ABD, owned by Imperial Airways and operated by Qantas. |
18 |
13 |
[3][13][14] |
| 20 February 1942 |
Brisbane, Australia |
de Havilland DH.86 |
VH-USE |
Lost control after take-off in stormy weather, possibly broke-up in flight (tail fin found a mile from the crash site). |
9 |
9 |
[15][16][17][18] |
| 28 February 1942 |
Tjilatjah, Netherlands East Indies |
Short S.23 Empire Flying Boat |
G-AETZ |
Shot down by Japanese aircraft; ex-Qantas owned by Imperial Airways and operated by Qantas. |
20 |
20 |
[19] |
| 22 April 1943 |
Gulf of Papua off Port Moresby, Papua |
Short S.23 Empire Flying Boat |
VH-ADU |
Broke up in heavy seas after emergency landing in open water in poor weather. |
31 |
13 |
[14][20] |
| 26 November 1943 |
Port Moresby, Papua |
Lockheed C-56B Lodestar |
42-68348 |
Struck hill after take-off; USAAF aircraft operated by Qantas for Allied Directorate of Air Transport. |
15 |
15 |
[21][22] |
| 11 October 1944 |
Rose Bay, Sydney, Australia |
Short S.23 Empire Flying Boat |
VH-ABB |
On final approach with one engine shut-down, stalled 3 metres (10 ft) above the water and hull ruptured on impact. |
30 |
1 |
[14][23][24] |
| 23 March 1946 |
Indian Ocean |
Avro Lancastrian |
G-AGLX |
Aircraft disappeared between Colombo and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, cause unknown; aircraft owned by BOAC and operated by both airlines on Sydney-London services (BOAC crews operated London-Karachi and Qantas crews Karachi-Sydney). |
10 |
10 |
[25][26] |
| 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. |
7 |
7 |
[27] |
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- ^ "G-AUED Airco aeroplane". John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland. http://enc.slq.qld.gov.au/logicrouter/servlet/LogicRouter?PAGE=object&OUTPUTXSL=object_enc36ui.xslt&pm_RC=PICTQLD&pm_OI=18047&api_1=GET_OBJECT_XML&num_result=0. Retrieved 2008-05-13.
- ^ Kebabjian, Richard (1997–2008). "24 Mar 1927". http://www.planecrashinfo.com/1927/1927-3.htm. Retrieved 2008-05-13.
- ^ Fysh, Sir Wilmot Hudson (1965). pp. 196--197, p. 285.
- ^ "Atalanta, a De Havilland DH50 biplane VH-UHE, ca. 1930". John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland. http://enc.slq.qld.gov.au/logicrouter/servlet/LogicRouter?PAGE=object&OUTPUTXSL=object_enc36ui.xslt&pm_RC=PICTQLD&pm_OI=17573&api_1=GET_OBJECT_XML&num_result=0. Retrieved 2008-05-13.
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- ^ Kebabjian, Richard (1997–2008). "15 Nov 1934". http://www.planecrashinfo.com/1934/1934-22.htm. Retrieved 2008-05-13.
- ^ "Papers of Ray Shepherd, File A20, ACC G-AEUH". Northern Territory Library and Information Service. http://www.ntl.nt.gov.au/collections/personal_papers_collection/guide_to_papers_of_ray_shepherd. Retrieved 2008-05-13.
- ^ a b c Graham, Wynnum B. (2001). Retrieved on 2008-05-13.
- ^ "De Havilland 86A owned by Qantas Empire Airways, ca. 1940". John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland. http://enc.slq.qld.gov.au/logicrouter/servlet/LogicRouter?PAGE=object&OUTPUTXSL=object_enc36ui.xslt&pm_RC=PICTQLD&pm_OI=17720&api_1=GET_OBJECT_XML&num_result=0. Retrieved 2008-05-13.
- ^ "Qantas DH86". Northern Territory Library and Information Service. http://www.ntlib.nt.gov.au/ntlpicweb/scripts/ExtSearch.asp?SearchTerm=14671. Retrieved 2008-05-13. [dead link]
- ^ "Qantas DH86". Northern Territory Library and Information Service. http://www.ntlib.nt.gov.au/ntlpicweb/scripts/ExtSearch.asp?SearchTerm=14674. Retrieved 2008-05-13. [dead link]
- ^ Kebabjian, Richard (1997–2008). "20 Feb 1942". http://www.planecrashinfo.com/1942/1942-8.htm. Retrieved 2008-05-13.
- ^ Pacific Wreck website
- ^ "AWM Collection Record: P02557.009". Australian War Memorial Collection. http://cas.awm.gov.au/photograph/P02557.009. Retrieved 2008-05-13.
- ^ Cuskelly, Ron (1997–2000). "Lodestar". http://www.adastron.com/lockheed/lock1.htm. Retrieved 2008-05-13.
- ^ Francillon, Rene J. (1987).
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- ^ "Qantas Short C Class Empire flying boat VH-ABB 'Coolangatta', ca. 1940". John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland. http://enc.slq.qld.gov.au/logicrouter/servlet/LogicRouter?PAGE=object&OUTPUTXSL=object_enc36ui.xslt&pm_RC=PICTQLD&pm_OI=45101&api_1=GET_OBJECT_XML&num_result=0. Retrieved 2008-05-13.
- ^ Livingstone, Bob (1998). p. 122.
- ^ Ranter, Harro; Lujan, Fabian I. (2003). "Avro 691 Lancastrian 1 G-AGLX Indian Ocean". http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19460323-0. Retrieved 2008-05-14.
- ^ Kebabjian, Richard (1997–2008). "16 Jul 1951". http://www.planecrashinfo.com/1951/1951-36.htm. Retrieved 2010-06-30.
[edit] References
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- Francillon, Rene J. (1987). Lockheed Aircraft Since 1913. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0870218972. OCLC 17156375.
- Fysh, Sir Wilmot Hudson (1965). Qantas Rising: The Autobiography of the Flying Fysh. Sydney, NSW: Angus and Robertson. OCLC 2223794. LoC Cat. No. 65-25523.
- Graham, Wynnum B. (2001). "Empire C Class Flying Boats" (PDF). Australian Military Aircraft Serials and Aircraft History. http://www.adf-serials.com/research/empireflyingboats.pdf.
- Job, Macarthur (1991). Air Crash. 1. Weston Creek, ACT: Aerospace Publications Pty. Ltd. ISBN 0958797897. OCLC 28964777.
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- Livingstone, Bob (1998). Under the Southern Cross: The B-24 Liberator in the South Pacific. Nashville, TN: Turner Publishing Company. ISBN 1563114321. OCLC 44838653.
- Ranter, Harro; Lujan, Fabian I. (1996–2008). "Aviation Safety Network". Flight Safety Foundation. http://aviation-safety.net/.
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