There is a series of stories running on Plane Talking about the Ansett collapse that read like chapters from a book. I'm not sure if they are much comfort for the victims of Ansett in what I've read so far but there is stuff there I've never heard of before.
It talks about Toomey resigning all his directorships a month before Ansett was shut down by the first by the first administrators, and a new name for Ansett that was about to be put on a 767 in hangar in Christchurch, it was going to be Pacific Star maybe, and how Singapore Airlines and Qantas both refused to buy Ansett for $1 a week before it went under.
Ansett 2001: Was it to be Pacific Star or Australian Star? | Plane Talking