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4 Goodsir and Kerr with Paxinos, ‘Welcome to Bangkok’, Sydney Morning Herald.
5 Ibid.
6 Bruce Cheeseman and Ben Sandilands, ‘An Accident Waiting to Happen’, Australian Financial Review, 3 November 1999.
7 Goodsir and Kerr with Paxinos, ‘Welcome to Bangkok’, Sydney Morning Herald.
8 Sophie Tedmanson, ‘Woman Fears Death Every Time She Flies’, Australian, 26 April 2001.
9 ATSB report, ‘Boeing 747-438, VH-OJH Bangkok, Thailand’, p. 68.
10 Ibid.
11 Ibid.
12 ATSB report, p. 67.
13 Goodsir and Kerr with Paxinos, ‘Welcome to Bangkok’, Sydney Morning Herald.
14 Ibid.
15 ATSB report, p. 59.
16 ibid.
17 Tedmanson, ‘Woman Fears Death Every Time She Flies’, Australian.
18 Wainwright and Kerr, ‘Qantas Denies Crash Error’, Sydney Morning Herald.
19 Cheeseman and Sandilands, ‘An Accident Waiting to Happen’, Australian Financial Review.
20 ATSB report, executive summary, p. vi.
21 ATSB report, p. 37.
22 Ibid.
23 ATSB report, p. 154.
24 Ibid.
25 ATSB report, executive summary, p. viii.
26 Ibid.
27 ATSB report, p. 97.
28 Tedmanson, ‘Woman Fears Death Every Time She Flies’, Australian.
QF2
Early emergency
1 Sir Hudson Fysh, Qantas Rising, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1965, p. 101.
2 Ibid., p. 102.
3 Macarthur Job, Air Crash, volume 1, 1921-39, Aerospace Publications, ACT, 1991, p. 20.
4 John Gunn, The Defeat of Distance, Qantas 1919-1939, University of Queensland Press, Brisbane, 1985, p. 16. Gunn had access to Fergus McMaster’s papers, including a narrative of the founding years of Qantas. He refers to these collectively as the McMaster Papers. Reference to those papers is drawn from Gunn’s extensive research.
5 Gunn, The Defeat of Distance, from McMaster’s papers, p. 21.
6 Ibid., p. 30.
7 Ibid.
8 Ibid., p. 31.
9 Fysh, Qantas Rising, p. 197.
10 Ibid.
11 Sydney Morning Herald, 21 April 1934.
QF3
Cover-up
1 Sir Hudson Fysh, Qantas at War, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1968, p. 3.
2 Ibid., p. 4.
3 Ibid., p. 7.
4 Job, Air Crash, p. 73.
5 Ibid., p. 74.
6 Ibid., p. 78.
7 Ibid., p. 90.
8 Ibid., p. 78.
9 Ibid., p. 79.
10 Fysh, Qantas at War, p. 39.
11 Job, Air Crash, p. 85.
12 Ibid., pp. 86-7.
13 Ibid.
14 Ibid.
15 Ibid.
16 Ibid.
17 Ibid.
18 Ibid.
19 Ibid.
QF4
Qantas at war
1 John Gunn, Challenging Horizons, University of Queensland Press, Brisbane, 1987, p. 51.
2 Fysh, Qantas at War, p. 135.
3 Ibid., pp. 139-40.
4 Ibid., p. 136.
5 Ibid., p. 71.
6 Ibid., p. 69.
7 Ibid., p. 156.
8 Ibid., p. 130.
9 Ibid.
10 Gunn, Challenging Horizons, p. 56.
11 Brain’s diary is quoted in Neil Cadigan, A Man among Mavericks, ABC Books, Sydney, 2008, p. 148.
12 Ibid.
13 Fysh, Qantas at War, p. 155.
14 Ibid., p. 67.
15 Gunn, Challenging Horizons, p. 104.
16 John Stackhouse, The Dawn of Aviation, Focus Publishing, Sydney, 1995, p. 93.
17 Fysh, Qantas at War, p. 185.
18 Ibid., p.
19 Ibid., p.181.
QF5
The big lie
1 Macarthur Job, ‘Misadventure at Mauritius’, Flight Safety Australia, January–February 2000, p. 49.
2 Ibid.
3 Ibid.
4 Ibid.
5 Ibid.
6 Fysh, Qantas at War, p. 203.
7 Ibid.
8 Hudson Fysh, Wings to the World, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1970, p. 17.
9 Ibid., p. 18.
10 Fysh, Qantas at War, p. 209.
11 Fysh, Wings to the World, p. 28.
12 Ibid., p. 30.
13 Stackhouse, The Dawn of Aviation.
14 Fysh, Wings to the World, p. 71.
15 Ibid., p. 71.
16 Gunn, Challenging Horizons, p. 259.
17 Fysh, Wings to the World, p. 72.
18 Laura Cochrane, ‘Qantas Won’t Send Airplanes to Malaysia for Maintenance Checks’, Bloomberg, 9 August 2008.
19 Letter from Macarthur Job to Laura Cochrane, 9 August 2008, in reference to article quoted on Bloomberg.
20 Ibid.
21 Interview with author, 4 September 2009.
QF6
Extortion
1 Basil Sweeney and Gavin Souter, ‘The Real Mr Brown’, Sydney Morning Herald, 31 January 1972.
2 Ibid.
3 Sydney Morning Herald, 28 January 1972.
4 Ibid.
5 Ibid.
6 Basil Sweeney and Gavin Souter, ‘Prelude to Extortion’, Sydney Morning Herald, 29 January 1972.
7 Basil Sweeney, ‘Mr Brown Link