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The facts are that during a maintenance visit to SIAEC a Qantas 747-400 had wiring stapled. Qantas have admitted this in an internal audit of the check.
Are they???
Magoo don't you mean "have they"? And yes they have. David Cox admitted as much on the John Laws radio programme (which incidentally featured on media watch last week) thus the need for spin doctoring. Strike two David.
Ben Sandilands is a travel writer. His knowledge of aircraft maintenance and regulatory systems would probably extend to the Moet served in A zone whilst writing another puff piece on behalf of Qantas.
This article is pure bunk.
The spokesman said Cox’s comment were made three days before they went to air, well after the inquiry was launched and the false premises of the union campaign were exposed. Since then the union has been in retreat, claiming that it was not casting aspersions on the training or capability of foreign maintenance workers nor the quality of their work.
SIAC was furious over the report. Cox’s response to that fury is detailed in this Note to Staff on July 20.
So we are led to believe that at the time Cox was interviewed an enquiry was well under way as to the identity of the Qantas employee who perpetrated this abomination and the acusations of the union had been refuted and disproved? Right..... that explains his performance and shock when confronted with proof it happened, proof that it was reported through propper channels and proof that he failed to act.