List of Qantas Fatal Accidents (14 items)report

• [Date]: 24 March 1927
  [Location]: Tambo, Australia
  [Aircraft type]: Airco (later de Havilland) DH.9C
  [Registration]: G-AUED
  [Description]: Stalled at low altitude on approach to land. Pilot Alan Douglas Davidson
  [Total occupants]: 3
  [Fatalities]: 3
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• [Date]: 4 September 1928
  [Location]: Adelaide Hills, Australia
  [Aircraft type]: de Havilland DH.50J
  [Registration]: G-AUHI
  [Description]: Following a tour carrying Sir John Salmond, aircraft departed Adelaide piloted by C. W. A. Scott with engineer as passenger; lost control in cloud during attempt to cross the Adelaide Hills and aircraft crashed and caught fire killing the engineer. See C. W. A. Scott's DH.50J Hermes, fatal crash.
  [Total occupants]: 2
  [Fatalities]: 1
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• [Date]: 3 October 1934
  [Location]: Near Winton, Australia
  [Aircraft type]: de Havilland DH.50A
  [Registration]: VH-UHE
  [Description]: Crashed after in-flight loss of control, possibly stalled at low altitude in dusty low-visibility conditions.
  [Total occupants]: 3
  [Fatalities]: 3
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• [Date]: 15 November 1934
  [Location]: Near Longreach, Australia
  [Aircraft type]: de Havilland DH.86
  [Registration]: VH-USG
  [Description]: Crashed on its delivery flight from England to Brisbane after in-flight loss of control, probably due to the type's design deficiencies.
  [Total occupants]: 4
  [Fatalities]: 4
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• [Date]: 30 January 1942
  [Location]: Timor Sea off Koepang
  [Aircraft type]: Short S.23 Empire Flying Boat
  [Registration]: G-AEUH
  [Description]: Shot down by Japanese aircraft; ex-Qantas VH-ABD, owned by Imperial Airways and operated by Qantas.
  [Total occupants]: 18
  [Fatalities]: 13
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• [Date]: 20 February 1942
  [Location]: Brisbane, Australia
  [Aircraft type]: de Havilland DH.86
  [Registration]: VH-USE
  [Description]: Lost control after take-off in stormy weather, possibly broke up in flight (tail fin found a mile from the crash site).
  [Total occupants]: 9
  [Fatalities]: 9
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• [Date]: 28 February 1942
  [Location]: Between Tjilatjap, Netherlands East Indies and Broome, Australia
  [Aircraft type]: Short S.23 Empire Flying Boat
  [Registration]: G-AETZ
  [Description]: Nicknamed "Circe"Shot down by Japanese aircraft; owned by Imperial Airways and operated by Qantas.
  [Total occupants]: 20
  [Fatalities]: 20
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• [Date]: 22 April 1943
  [Location]: Gulf of Papua off Port Moresby, Papua
  [Aircraft type]: Short S.23 Empire Flying Boat
  [Registration]: VH-ADU
  [Description]: Stalled in flare and broke up during emergency landing in open water in poor weather.
  [Total occupants]: 31
  [Fatalities]: 13
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• [Date]: 26 November 1943
  [Location]: Port Moresby, Papua
  [Aircraft type]: Lockheed C-56B Lodestar
  [Registration]: 42-68348
  [Description]: Struck hill after take-off; USAAF aircraft operated by Qantas for Allied Directorate of Air Transport.
  [Total occupants]: 15
  [Fatalities]: 15
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• [Date]: 11 October 1944
  [Location]: Rose Bay, Sydney, Australia
  [Aircraft type]: Short S.23 Empire Flying Boat
  [Registration]: VH-ABB
  [Description]: On final approach with one engine shut-down, stalled 3 metres (10 ft) above the water and hull ruptured on impact.
  [Total occupants]: 30
  [Fatalities]: 2
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• [Date]: 23 March 1946
  [Location]: Indian Ocean
  [Aircraft type]: Avro Lancastrian
  [Registration]: G-AGLX
  [Description]: Aircraft disappeared between Colombo and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, cause unknown; aircraft owned by BOAC and operated by both airlines on Sydney-London services (BOAC crews operated London-Karachi and Qantas crews Karachi-Sydney).
  [Total occupants]: 10
  [Fatalities]: 10
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• [Date]: 16 July 1951
  [Location]: Huon Gulf near Lae, Papua New Guinea
  [Aircraft type]: de Havilland Australia DHA-3 Drover
  [Registration]: VH-EBQ
  [Description]: Crashed in sea after centre propeller failure, in heavy rain half a mile from the coast. Cargo of gold doré bars worth £36,000 (A$1.6 million 2017) was never found.
  [Total occupants]: 7
  [Fatalities]: 7
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• [Date]: 21 September 1951
  [Location]: 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) southeast of Arona in the central highlands of New Guinea
  [Aircraft type]: de Havilland DH.84 Dragon
  [Registration]: VH-AXL
  [Description]: Crashed in mountainous country, no passengers aboard
  [Total occupants]: 1
  [Fatalities]: 1
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• [Date]: 13 December 1951
  [Location]: Near Mount Hagen, central highlands of New Guinea
  [Aircraft type]: de Havilland DH.84 Dragon
  [Registration]: VH-URV
  [Description]: Crashed in mountainous country
  [Total occupants]: 3
  [Fatalities]: 3
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