Passengers on a Qantas Airways flight to London were stranded overnight because of damage to a wing and another Qantas flight was cancelled today after fumes were detected on board.

Australia’s aviation agency told Qantas Airways to improve its airline maintenance system following a review prompted by a series of problems that plagued the airline in recent months.

Qantas Airways chief executive Geoff Dixon said today that his airline is “probably the safest” in the world after Australia’s aviation agency launched a review of its safety standards.

AUSTRALIAN civil aviation officials yesterday announced an unprecedented special review of Qantas after three mid-air dramas in the space of two weeks threatened to tarnish its safety record.

A QANTAS jet was forced to make an emergency landing at Adelaide airport yesterday after a door opened during a flight to Melbourne.

Australian airline Qantas moved to inspect oxygen cylinders on its entire fleet today as investigators focused on a missing tank as the suspected cause of a mid-air blast that tore a hole in a jumbo jet carrying more than 350 people.

Australian investigators today began examining a stricken Qantas jumbo jet that made a emergency landing in the Philippines with a giant hole in its fuselage.

Australia is to restrict sales of high-powered laser pointers after a series of unsolved attacks temporarily blinded airline pilots as they prepared to land.

An Australian state may ban hand-held laser pointers after six planes arriving into Sydney were forced to alter their flight paths, officials said today.

Former Neighbours star Kimberley Davies may have cracked a rib while jumping 15ft from a helicopter to win food for her jungle mates on ITV’s I’m A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!

Failure by Australian airline Qantas to teach pilots how to land on wet runways was the main reason for the crash involving one of its jumbo jets in Bangkok, a report has concluded.

Australia’s second largest airline scrambled today to find seats for thousands of passengers after aviation authorities grounded 10 of its planes because of sloppy maintenance.