1929
f the name Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services doesn’t ring a bell, its acronym will: Qantas. Founded by two Gallipoli veterans in 1920 as a mail—“Qantas never crashed”—is not entirely accurate, the airline hasn’t had a fatal accident since 1951, when a de Havilland Drover went down off the coast of Papua New Guinea. Yet not a single passenger has been lost in the jet age, making Qantas, now a century old, the safest airline in the world.
