Qantas has never lost a jet to an accident, although there were crashes of smaller planes, the last in 1951. Since then, there have been no accident-related deaths on any Qantas jets.
However, the airline has had a few scares in recent years. In February, a Qantas 717 with 84 passengers on board sustained damage in a landing in Darwin, Australia. In September 1999, a Qantas Boeing 747-400 with more than 400 people aboard overshot a runway in Bangkok, Thailand, in bad weather.
As of December 2007, Qantas operated 216 aircraft to 37 countries, though in recent months it has announced it will retire some aircraft and cancel some routes.
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