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Part of a flying boat destroyed by Japanese fighter planes in 1942 goes missing before a salvage operation is able to collect the wreckage.

A line in the film Rain Man underscored Qantas's enviable safety record. But it's been a long and turbulent ride.

That the astonishing act of wartime bravery by Edward "Teddy" Sheean, an 18-year-old with less than two years experience at sea, was denied a Victoria Cross does not come as a surprise to military historian Tom Lewis.