Geoffrey Thomas Sinks To New Low
Our resident "aviation expert" has again been showing how a few months chucking bags has really qualified him as an aviation technical expert.
In this item:
http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-03/crashed-airasia-plan-had-been-flying-with-mechanical-fault/7376776
He sprukes that Qantas would never fly an aircraft around which is maintained like this.
And yet, we know of his vehement opposition to claims from the engineers' union that outsourcing of QF maintenance overseas and reduced maintenance standards were resulting in a slipping of safety. "Scaremongering" I believe was his term of reference towards the TWU's concerns re offshore maintenance.
So on one hand, Australian engineers are scaremongering over offshore maintenance, and yet on the other hand, we should be banning AirAsia because of shoddy overseas maintenance.
The most disappointing thing to me, is that abc news have sunken to the low of referencing this Chairman's lounge puppet.
Note: This thread is not a Qantas vs AirAsia safety comparison, so all of you leaping out of your chairs to Qantas' defence can calm down. We know which airline is safer on the whole - it's not about that.