Qantas Terror Flight Cause Found

THE Qantas jet that rapidly lost altitude last week, resulting in and injured 74 passengers being injured, was being piloted manually on "erratic and erroneous" information, air transport investigators said last night.

Computer Sent Qantas Jet Into Dive

THE dramatic plunge of a Qantas jet that injured 74 passengers last week was caused by a faulty computer component that sent "erratic and erroneous information" to the plane's flight control system, air transport investigators said last night.

Dozens Injured As Qantas Jet Plunges

THE transport safety watchdog is investigating an accident that sent a Qantas passenger jet plunging earthwards, injuring at least 40 passengers and crew, 15 seriously, and forcing the pilot to make an emergency landing.

Fifteen Badly Hurt As Qantas Jet Drops

THE transport safety watchdog is investigating an accident that sent a Qantas passenger jet plunging earthwards yesterday, injuring at least 40 passengers and crew, 15 seriously, and forcing the pilot to make an emergency landing.

Deaths Company Linked To Defence

AN AUSTRALIAN-CONTROLLED company whose employees killed three Iraqi civilians in Iraq is employed by the Australian Defence Force to provide building materials for projects in Afghanistan.

How A Lear Jet And A Beatle Won Bob Jane A Beauty Queen

TYRE magnate Bob Jane was 58 when he arranged for a teenage beauty queen he fancied to hitch a ride in a Lear jet with Beatle George Harrison to meet him at the Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide in the mid-1980s.

Absent Juror Keeps Black Trial Waiting

THE media frenzy around the trial of Conrad Black - the grandiloquent former media mogul about to stand trial in Chicago for defrauding his company - was apparently not shared by one of the jurors, who failed to show.

Black Day In Court Ends With A Whimper

THE frenzy surrounding the trial of Conrad Black, the loquacious former media mogul about to stand trial in Chicago for defrauding his company, was not apparently shared by one of the jurors: he or she failed to show up.

Bunny Boiler And The Zombie: Ex-lovers' Battle Goes To Court

IT IS not every day that a senior medical specialist is accused of "schmoozing and boozing" on international drug company junkets and being a "dysfunctional walking zombie".

From Parachute To Platinum Helicopter

High-flying executives' remuneration is back on the radar in the US, writes Mark Coultan.

Make Way For Masters Of The Universe

MARGARET Jackson made selling the national carrier sound like the most natural thing in world. Qantas had started out as a private company she said, it had been owned by the government, privatised into a public company and now it was going to be subsumed by a private consortium.

Joyflight Crash Victim's 50th Birthday Present

ONE of two men killed in a vintage jet fighter crash in central western NSW had been given the joyflight as a 50th birthday present.

No Airbus - Qantas In Capacity Dilemma

QANTAS has been forced to review its capacity plans for the next two years after Airbus postponed delivery of its A380 jumbo jet for the third time.

Surrealist French Work Adds Some Vigour To This Year's Fringe Festival

FRINGE theatre in Melbourne is in renewal, adding to the city's energy and sophistication. Jet of Blood, a rarely performed work by the French theorist Antonin Artaud, is the latest evidence of its renewed vigour.

$400m Lost In Botched Jet Contract

A $400 MILLION contract for an Australian firm to produce cutting edge radar and electronic sensors for the RAAF's fleet of Hornet fighter jets will be dumped after the equipment was found to be an expensive failure.

S400m Lost In Botched Jet Contract

A $400 MILLION contract for an Australian firm to produce cutting-edge radar and electronic sensors for the RAAF's fleet of Hornet fighter jets will be dumped after the equipment was found to be an expensive failure.

Global Chiefs Jet In To Direct Online Initiative

CALIFORNIA-based Yahoo! is so serious about its only online joint venture with a TV broadcaster that two of its bigwigs are moving to Australia to work at Yahoo!7.

Woods World's Best Stew Over Open Secrets

LONDON: Phil Mickelson flew in by private jet on a reconnaissance mission three weeks before the tournament.

May The G-force Be With You

Lenny Ann Low hates flying. So what is she doing hurtling through the sky at 850kmh in a fighter jet?

And Bugs Might Fly

Someone has squeezed a jet engine into the back of a Beetle and it's street legal, reports JOSHUA DOWLING.