The Men Who Killed QANTAS
Code No: 22086
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Published: 2009
Binding: Softcover
No. Pages: 292
Dimensions: 15 x 23
Illustrations: 16 page photo section
Description:
Publisher`s Notes:
The book every Australian airline passenger needs to read ... and the book the executives of Qantas wish would go away.
In the Hollywood movie Rainman, Dustin Hoffman said: `Qantas never crashes.`
In this book, leading aircrash investigator Macarthur Job says: `He was wrong.`
The Men Who Killed Qantas tells of a string of fatal accidents in the earlier years of Qantas, and how executives hushed up design flaws in planes that simply fell out of the sky. This is the true history you will not read on the official website: a story of sabotage, bomb hoaxes and ransom payments; a story of sex scandals, bigamy, date rape and prostitution. It reveals the cost-cutting decisions by management that directly led to a Qantas jet with 391 passengers on board overshooting the runway and crashing onto a golf course as it landed in a storm in Thailand in 1999. And it tells how Qantas put the lives of thousands of passengers at risk because of poor maintenance standards, pumping toxic fumes into the cabin of a Boeing 747.
The book goes into the Qantas boardroom and looks at the deals that secured executives giant paydays and golden parachutes while sending aircraft to dodgy maintenance depots overseas. It tells how the company took taxpayers` money to train people and then sacked the nation`s top apprentice because his job had been outsourced to Singapore. It tells how corporate greed has brought a once proud national icon to its knees.
As the flying kangaroo fills headlines with scandals and disasters, this book tells us exactly who are The Men Who Killed Qantas.
Publisher`s Notes:
The book every Australian airline passenger needs to read ... and the book the executives of Qantas wish would go away.
In the Hollywood movie Rainman, Dustin Hoffman said: `Qantas never crashes.`
In this book, leading aircrash investigator Macarthur Job says: `He was wrong.`
The Men Who Killed Qantas tells of a string of fatal accidents in the earlier years of Qantas, and how executives hushed up design flaws in planes that simply fell out of the sky. This is the true history you will not read on the official website: a story of sabotage, bomb hoaxes and ransom payments; a story of sex scandals, bigamy, date rape and prostitution. It reveals the cost-cutting decisions by management that directly led to a Qantas jet with 391 passengers on board overshooting the runway and crashing onto a golf course as it landed in a storm in Thailand in 1999. And it tells how Qantas put the lives of thousands of passengers at risk because of poor maintenance standards, pumping toxic fumes into the cabin of a Boeing 747.
The book goes into the Qantas boardroom and looks at the deals that secured executives giant paydays and golden parachutes while sending aircraft to dodgy maintenance depots overseas. It tells how the company took taxpayers` money to train people and then sacked the nation`s top apprentice because his job had been outsourced to Singapore. It tells how corporate greed has brought a once proud national icon to its knees.
As the flying kangaroo fills headlines with scandals and disasters, this book tells us exactly who are The Men Who Killed Qantas.
