Qantas, Australia's flag carrier, has been named the world's safest airline for the third year in a row by AirlineRatings.com. Qantas holds the distinction of being the only airline that Dustin Hoffman's character in the 1988 movie "Rain Man" would fly because it had "never crashed." The airline suffered fatal crashes of small aircraft prior to 1951, but has had no fatalities in the 70 years since. "Qantas has been the lead airline in virtually every major operational safety advancement over the past 70 years and has not had a fatality in the pure jet era," said Geoffrey Thomas, the website's editor-in-chief.
