What a load of tosh this report is.
In the name of balance, can we see a report on engineering oversights coming from Australian maintenance organizations? I would hate to think that the Australian public mistakenly believes that engineering in Australia is squeaky clean.
And can Steve really look at himself in the mirror after trying to draw a parallel between a flap failure in BNE and a Garuda 737 crash in Indo?
And why is it that heavy maintenance is so much cheaper overseas. What is the Australian engineering fraternity going to do to compete, apart from scaring the public.
This should be seen for what it is, industrial scare tactics.