At 11:55 AM 2/13/02 -0600, you wrote:
>By the way,Qantas is the only major airline that has never had an
>accident.


Not a *fatal* accident. They wrote off two aircraft due to accidents
before 1961, and there was this incident in 1999 at Bangkok's
airport (a Boeing 747-438 with 410 people aboard):

 >The aircraft overran the 100 m stopway (at the end of the runway) at
 >a speed of 88 kts, before stopping 220 m later with the nose resting
 >on an airport perimeter road.
..
 >deficiencies in Qantas's operational procedures, training and
 >management processes were found.

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