Fake Engineer @ Qantas
Dec 18, 2008 | 6:18 pm
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Fake Engineer @ Qantas
From Bogus Qantas engineer is jailed:
So it was only one bosses concern about more moolah for the phoney engineer that caused it to unravel.
Incredible! Doesn't Qantas verify anything? One might wonder why they've had so many inflight incidents with their aircraft.
Does Qantas do any 3rd party work (equivalent of our FAA Part 145 certificate)? Did they touch the NW 742's that were in SYD a while back? Makes one nervous ....
Originally Posted by BBC
An Australian man, who faked being a Qantas engineer for 10 months, has been sentenced to at least two years in jail for endangering thousands of lives....Mr McCormack posed as a supervising engineer checking 30 Qantas 747 aircraft leaving Sydney airport....At first, Mr McCormack was employed by Qantas as a junior engineer but bosses encouraged him to start performing unsupervised maintenance checks despite not having the relevant qualifications.
One of his bosses became concerned Mr McCormack was not getting paid enough for the more senior work and asked him to produce his qualifications.
One of his bosses became concerned Mr McCormack was not getting paid enough for the more senior work and asked him to produce his qualifications.
Incredible! Doesn't Qantas verify anything? One might wonder why they've had so many inflight incidents with their aircraft.
Does Qantas do any 3rd party work (equivalent of our FAA Part 145 certificate)? Did they touch the NW 742's that were in SYD a while back? Makes one nervous ....
Last edited by MikeMpls; Dec 18, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Dec 18, 2008 | 9:00 pm
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I'll bet you he was charming and a br@@nnoser. That will get you much further than any qualifications in this world.
I have seen far too many people impress supervisors by repeating their colleagues findings without having a clue as to what they were talking about.
However there is no excuse for this happening in such a critical position.
And what about his colleagues? He must have bamboozled them all as well.
I have seen far too many people impress supervisors by repeating their colleagues findings without having a clue as to what they were talking about.
However there is no excuse for this happening in such a critical position.
And what about his colleagues? He must have bamboozled them all as well.