In 1999, Qantas Flight 1 ran off the end of the runway when landing in a rainstorm at Bangkok. The jetliner ploughed through the boggy overrun area and came to a halt with its nose resting on the perimeter road of the airport. There were no serious injuries. Normally such an incident would result in the aircraft being scrapped, but Qantas were keen to avoid this outcome. They held the rare distinction of never having written off a jet airliner (known in aviation as a 'hull loss'), and were willing to reach deep into their pockets to keep the record alive. Therefore, they contracted Boeing to fly out a whole new nose section to Thailand and then graft it onto the wounded airframe. This imgur album shows the progression of the remarkable repair job: > https://imgur.com/a/qf1-747-vh-ojh-repair-LucEz VH-OJH returned to service and continued to fly for Qantas until 2012, ultimately being scrapped two years later. Qantas retains their record of no jet hull losses to this day, though they were once again required to undertake extensive repairs on a jet after their A380 VH-OQA suffered a catastrophic inflight engine failure in 2010.
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