I know this has been discussed before and it has been briefly mentioned in the QF Where will it end thread but I thought it should be reprised in a thread of its own.
Two points, first he has been linked by the SMH journalist to an incident that occurred many moons after his departure from QANTAS (but at least we all now have someone to blame, yippee!!!)
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Second, if you could forge a bunch of certificates, qualifications and licenses why wouldn't you choose something interesting like gynacologist or hands on sex therapist etc...
From the SMH website today.
Qantas jet engineer charged with forgery
Kate McClymont
January 16, 2008
A FORMER Qantas engineer responsible for safety checks on the airline's fleet of Boeing 747s could be jailed after being charged with more than 100 offences, including forging a maintenance engineer's licence and maintaining jets without a licence.
Timothy Leslie McCormack - who worked at Qantas's Sydney base until his allegedly forged licence was discovered in July - is believed to have performed safety checks on the plane involved in a recent dramatic landing in Bangkok.
After investigations by the Australian Federal Police, McCormack, 26, from Kensington, has been charged with 88 counts of maintaining Qantas jumbo jets without a licence, as well as forging exam results for the Civil Aviation Safety Authority's aircraft maintenance engineer licence.
Documents tendered to Downing Centre Local Court yesterday show that McCormack has also been charged with making a false declaration and creating a false licence "with the intention that it would be used to dishonestly induce Qantas to accept it as genuine."
McCormack, who failed to appear for yesterday's hearing, has also been charged with possessing a forged Commonwealth document, "namely a licence purported to be issued by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority".
From July 2006 until July last year McCormack is alleged to have carried out maintenance on Qantas Boeing 747-400 jets that regularly fly on the US and European routes.
One of the aircraft, over which he has been charged with performing unlicensed maintenance work, bears the registration number VH-OJM. It is understood this was the Qantas Boeing 747-438 jet that made an emergency landing in Bangkok last week due to a power failure later attributed to water leaking from a cracked drip tray.
Carrying 344 passengers from London, it had to rely on standby battery power. Qantas dismissed claims by aviation experts who said the accident could have been catastrophic because the emergency power system was designed to provide back-up for up to an hour only.
Yesterday the magistrate, Gail Madgwick, said she would have McCormack arrested if he failed to appear in court next Tuesday.
His lawyer, Michael Jaloussis, said his client intended to plead not guilty.