QantasLink Flight 1737
Impulse Airlines, QantasLink Boeing 717-200 · Attempted Hijacking
From Melbourne Airport (MEL) to Launceston Airport (LST)
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Occurrence
- Event fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- 53
- Survivors
- 53
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- 4
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Airline
Boeing 717-200
- Aircraft type
- Boeing 717
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- VH-VQI
- Operator
- Impulse Airlines, QantasLink
- Onboard fatalities
- 0
- Route
- From Melbourne Airport (MEL)To Launceston Airport (LST)
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
QantasLink Flight 1737 was an afternoon Australian domestic flight from Melbourne Airport to Launceston Airport, which was subject to an attempted hijacking on 29 May 2003. It was the first attempted hijacking since the September 11 attacks.
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Sources
Wikipedia article: QantasLink Flight 1737
- Article
- QantasLink Flight 1737
- Revision
- 1358502930 · 2026-06-09 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q7266509
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- Wikipedia article "QantasLink Flight 1737" (page 8747190, revision 1358502930)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- Wikipedia article coordinates
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- flight number in the article title
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Wikipedia article's infobox and coordinates, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.