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A 60-year-old Australian woman was sentenced Wednesday for her part in the mercy killing of the 71-year-old Alzheimer's sufferer who had been her partner for 18 years.
In sentencing Shirley Justins to spend her weekends in jail for the next two years for the manslaughter of former Qantas pilot Graeme Wylie, Judge Roderick Howie...
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Australian banks Tuesday pulled the rug from under debt-laden local leveraged buy-out specialist Allco Finance Group.
Receivers were appointed for Allco and its shares placed in a trading halt after talks with the 12 banks failed to reach agreement on a repayment schedule for debts of 667 million Australian dollars (446 million US...
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A computer malfunction could explain why a Qantas passenger jet en route from Singapore and Perth plunged in altitude and injured 46 passengers, investigators said Wednesday.
Passengers aboard Flight QF72 said the Airbus A330 dipped 8,000 feet (2,440 metres) in about 10 seconds on Tuesday before making an emergency landing at...
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Dozens of passengers aboard a Qantas flight from Singapore to Perth were injured "following a sudden change in altitude," the Australian airline said in a statement Tuesday.
The Airbus A330 with 303 passengers and 10 crew had to put out a mayday call and make an emergency landing at Learmonth Airport near Exmouth, 1,260...
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The astonishing run of maintenance woes for Australia's Qantas Airways Ltd continues with a faulty rudder delaying a plane from London for 15 hours and an internal flight forced into an unscheduled landing because its toilets hadn't been emptied.
Qantas confirmed Monday that a "technical issue" with the rudder on a 747-400...
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Another day, another safety scare for Australia's Qantas Airways Ltd.
Engineers at Singapore's Changi Airport discovered a body panel had fallen off a Qantas jumbo flying between Melbourne and the island republic, a spokeswoman said Friday.
"It had absolutely no flight safety implications," the spokeswoman said.
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 An exploding cylinder might have made a hole in the fuselage of a Qantas Airways plane while it was flying on Friday, therefore the crew had to make an emergency landing in the Philippines. No passenger was injured.`”We've likely had a cylinder event,'' said today Neville Blyth, senior transport safety inspector at the Australian...
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Australian carrier Qantas has taken delivery of the first of the 20 Airbus A380 superjumbo aircraft it has ordered, Airbus said Friday.
The aircraft was handed over to Qantas CEO Geoff Dixon at a ceremony at Airbus headquarters in the southern French city of Toulouse.
The world's largest commercial airliner, the A380 typically...
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 India-born surgeon Jayant Patel, nicknamed “Doctor Death,” returned to Australia to face charges relating to the deaths of more than a dozen patients. Patel was taken into police custody in the United States after being extradited. On Monday, he was granted a conditional bail by a Queensland court after arriving in a Qantas Airways...
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 Heath Ledger’s former girlfriend, Michelle Williams arrived
in Australia
together with her daughter, Matilda in order to attend the private funeral of
Ledger.
Williams and the two-year old Matilda flew to Perth on a Qantas flight from Los Angeles on Wednesday afternoon, local
time. Dressed in black and wearing sunglasses, Williams...
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Australian carrier Qantas has taken delivery of the first of the 20 Airbus A380 superjumbo aircraft it has ordered, Airbus said Friday.
The aircraft was handed over to Qantas CEO Geoff Dixon at a ceremony at Airbus headquarters in the southern French city of Toulouse.
The world's largest commercial airliner, the A380 typically...
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Baggage handlers at an Australian airport were
criticised Thursday for letting a bag labelled 'bomb' to make it onto
the tarmac. Qantas airline staff would not allow the bag on to a plane at Brisbane's domestic terminal. The bag was later deemed safe. Union spokesman Geoff Bowes said better security was called for. 'The fact...
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Shards of metal from an exploding oxygen tank
in the cargo bay smashed through the fuselage and cabin floor of a
Qantas jumbo jet and even pushed the handle of an emergency door into
the opening position, Australian investigators said Wednesday.
The mid-air explosion that tore a 3-metre hole in a Boeing 747-400 on
its way from...
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Australian airline Qantas confirmed Tuesday
that a mechanical fault forced a Melbourne-bound Boeing 737 to return
to Adelaide but said talk of a second safety scare was overblown.
The left-side wheel-bay door failed to retract fully on Flight 692 on
Monday and the pilot followed standard procedure in returning to
Adelaide. ...
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 According to a Nova Corp press release on Friday, thousands
of foreign teachers have been made jobless and face expulsion from Japan
after the country's biggest chain of English language schools folded and sought
protection from creditors.
Nova Corp said that it has filed for court protection from
creditors amid efforts to turn...
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