How fortuitous for Qantas'
PR Dept that they will be able to spin the story to Joe Public that the maintenance problem at Bangkok was caused by one rogue fake engineer, and not a seriously flawed new corporate culture directed from the very top.
One that is becoming more and more obviously to those within the industry - and in the lower echelons of the company itself - the complete opposite of what the company once was. A hard-earned reputation Qantas still attempts to trade on looks more and more like being at risk of being lost in the most tragic circumstances if one day a crew - be it maintenance or technical - who still retain enough of the 'old Skippy' ethos isn't there to bail the company out of a future situation that would have been stopped three or four 'slices of cheese' earlier under the 'Old Qantas' formula.
(They probably caught the guy when he signed off one of the aircraft with "Q
Uantas Engineer".
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