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by mhenr18
3318 days ago
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It's worth pointing out Qantas is the exception to your point. More incidents on Qantas flights are due to causes outside of the crew's control than due to human error. Even then, Qantas hasn't lost an airframe or had any fatalities since the dawn of the jet age. |
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They do have a record as a safe airline ( though Southwest and Ryanair are probably 'safer' given the number of short-haul daily flights they operate ) but QANTAS also go to extreme lengths to maintain that reputation.
For example in 1999 one of their 747s, reg VH-OJH, overran the runway in Bangkok after aquaplaning. The insurers examined it whilst it lay on a golf course and wrote it off as uneconomic to repair. QANTAS however decided to proceed on its own initiative, to maintain its 'no jet losses' reputation, and spent over $100 million on repairs. Probably more than or just about exactly what the aircraft was worth at that time.
They actually had another 11 years service out of that one before it was sent to Marana for storage.