An unauthorised history of Qantas claims that the airline allowed a Boeing 747 jet to continue flying for nine months even though it was leaking oil, during which time a flight engineer was overcome by fumes believed to have been caused by the leak. The book alleges that repeated inspections had ...

A Qantas 747 jumbo jet that experienced an explosive cabin decompression mid last year was grounded again due to a fuel leak yesterday. The Boeing 747 aircraft, named City of Newcastle, was carrying 290 from London to Melbourne via Singapore was about 2 hours from the West Australian coast when the ...