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Old 17th Apr 2004, 13:59
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Keg

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Ugly, QF has lots of prangs in it's history- some of them fatal as well.

In no particular order, we've had more than one aircraft shot down (and never recovered I think!) during WWII, we had a Lancastrian 'swing' on landing with subsequnt gear failure and fire (ironically, also due in part to poor flap selection for the met conditions prevalent at the time!) ran a Super Connie off the runway in Mauritius in 1960 . None killed in those last two but as I said, I'm pretty sure we had crew and pax killed during WWII but I haven't found any hard numbers yet. Others may recall those other accidents and BKK certainly factors in with that term 'accident'.

Still, JT is doing the job for QF. Everyone that met him when he was at the jet base in SYD reckoned he was a top bloke- even if his Scientology stuff is a bit dodgy!
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