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Safest airline is Australia's Qantas with a fatality free-record in the jet era (1951)
AirlineRatings the world's safety and product rating website has announced its top ten safest airlines for 2013 from the 448 it monitors. Top of the list is Qantas which has a fatality free record in the jet era (since 1951). Read full article
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Jan 10th, 2014 - 08:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0PS: The Flight Data Recorder or Black Box was invented in Melbourne.
They came super close to crashing a full A380 when the Rolls Royce engine blew up.
Jan 10th, 2014 - 10:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0Just luck it didn't take the wing out.
This is great news for Anglolatino.
Jan 10th, 2014 - 10:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0Now he can safely fly to some other nation should he wish to marry whom he wants...
There's a scene in Rain Man where Dustin Hoffman's character informs his exasperated brother played by Tom ( couch jumper ) Cruise of Qantas flawless safety record. Everyone in the theatre I first saw it in ( in Perth ) cracked up.
Jan 10th, 2014 - 12:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@2 Klingon
There have been a few close calls like the one you mention, in recent years, but what can I say? Fortune favours the brave ( and the prudent ).
@2 Klingon
Jan 10th, 2014 - 12:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Facts are facts. Hypotheticals are not facts, just hypotheticals. If Spain had settled Australia we could now be a third rate banana republic with CFK as president. It didn't. We aren't. Qantas' record stands.
@3 Stevie
Oh how the mediocre have fallen.
Chasing me all over these fora being off topic will not help salve the wounds of whatever has traumatised you recently.
Nice to see that you are taking your rightful place as background noise with attempts at glib 2 or 3 liners and thus allowing others with more coherent and intelligent opinions to dominate.
Now be a good boy and run off and post another 15 or 20 vacuous posts before you log off. You found your calling and it's not on the same level as me any longer.
Anglolatino
Jan 10th, 2014 - 12:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0We were never at the same level.
I work for a living. You made your father go bankrupt with all your travelling...
@4 So? Note that it says “since 1951”. A Lockheed Super Constellation in 1960. A Boeing 747-400 in 1999. An Airbus A330-300 in 2008. An Airbus 380 in 2010. Not one single fatality. Two U.S. and two European aircraft. By comparison, Aerolineas Argentinas managed 28 “incidents” with 330 fatalities between 1951 and 1999. Anyone want to fly AA?
Jan 10th, 2014 - 01:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@6 Don't be ridiculous. What would you know about “working”? Any hour of the day or night, you're on here. Dribbling drivel.
I agree Stevie
Jan 10th, 2014 - 03:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0We were never on the same level.
And you are now much, much further beneath me than anytime in the past year. You have at least learnt your place without any great difficulty.
Yes yes I sent my father bankrupt travelling. Does that being a tear to your eye when you think of being a refugee with your father? Guess he couldn't pay for you to travel too much, just escape. Or perhaps when you tear up when you look at your five year old daughter that isn't even Uruguayan but now a loathsome European. Wow, won't Uruguay and Argentina be an eye-opener to her when she travels there as a teenager and fully appreciates her luck to come from a developed country instead.
But at least I got I travel. And unlike you returned to my homeland to live.
Now I wonder who I can tap to pay for my exchange year in Colombia? Dad's broke but thank God my government isn't.
So first you lives on your dad and now on the government... Have you ever tried to pay for stuff yourself?
Jan 10th, 2014 - 06:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It might have something to do with Australia being in the arse end of nowhere....emergency landing where...?
Jan 10th, 2014 - 10:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0At one time, despite having had a few fly into mountains etc , Delta was considered the safest airline. Qantas had flown x zillion miles without an accident while Delta was flying 3x zillion miles between accidents....
Jan 11th, 2014 - 02:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0Still boring A_Voice!
Jan 11th, 2014 - 03:20 am - Link - Report abuse 012 Anglotino
Jan 11th, 2014 - 04:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0A-Void is so desperate for attention that he is crying out plaintively on various threads.
He has recently returned on another thread as “BillyBallBags” or something similar, a UK? serviceman attached to a unit stationed in Afghanistan, apparently.
Perhaps some of the real Brit military types on here can vet him properly - or better yet, ignore him.
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Jan 11th, 2014 - 02:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Don't be so hard on yourself.....you are not boring me at all....
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Still sucking up to Anglotino....try getting off your knees once in a while...
1 Anglotino
Jan 11th, 2014 - 04:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“PS: The Flight Data Recorder or Black Box was invented in Melbourne.”
I think theBlack Box became required on airliners after the 1963 crash of TCA DC8 flt. 431 .
It inexplicably nosedived straight in at 350 mph, shortly after takeoff from Montreal.
It made a huge crater and the parts of the plane we're totally obliterated.
Reconstruction not possible
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Jan 11th, 2014 - 05:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“He has recently returned on another thread as “BillyBallBags” or something similar, a UK? serviceman attached to a unit stationed in Afghanistan, apparently.”
Oh what a dimwit you are.....
The problem with being a Brit wannabe yourself, is you do not notice...things a Brit would not say.....
“On a final note , will the person who keeps drawing a big penis on my frozen gator windshield give it a rest.”
http://en.mercopress.com/2014/01/06/falkland-islands-tory-mps-furious-with-cameron-over-aid-programs-to-argentina#comment297990
A Brit would use Windscreen.......
Oops,
Jan 11th, 2014 - 06:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I made a mistake.
The flight was not TransCanada Airways ( soon to be Air Canada) 431 but actually it was TCA 831
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Canada_Air_Lines_Flight_831
Still boring A_Voice.
Jan 11th, 2014 - 11:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Troy
I do believe that's why it is located in the tail section as it is the most likely part of the plane to survive.
The cause of that crash is unknown.
Jan 12th, 2014 - 03:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0The original recorders only monitored about six functions, but were very useful. Today's boxes record hundreds.
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