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Richard McCracken

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Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
#222 Richard de Crespigny: The Pilot Who Saved 440 Qantas Passengers

Can I ask you a couple of questions?

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
#222 Richard de Crespigny: The Pilot Who Saved 440 Qantas Passengers

One, is it less risky if I get on a plane with four engines?

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
#222 Richard de Crespigny: The Pilot Who Saved 440 Qantas Passengers

One, that seems to me to be the case, but I'm asking the question.

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
#222 Richard de Crespigny: The Pilot Who Saved 440 Qantas Passengers

Two,

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
#222 Richard de Crespigny: The Pilot Who Saved 440 Qantas Passengers

What do I need?

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
#222 Richard de Crespigny: The Pilot Who Saved 440 Qantas Passengers

What happens inside the cockpit there?

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
#222 Richard de Crespigny: The Pilot Who Saved 440 Qantas Passengers

So how many people are in there?

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
#222 Richard de Crespigny: The Pilot Who Saved 440 Qantas Passengers

And let's say, you know, how many people have got to help you in the event that one of the engines has blown up or is caught on fire?

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
#222 Richard de Crespigny: The Pilot Who Saved 440 Qantas Passengers

So take me through that process.

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
#222 Richard de Crespigny: The Pilot Who Saved 440 Qantas Passengers

How do you mean before you actually get off the ground?

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
#222 Richard de Crespigny: The Pilot Who Saved 440 Qantas Passengers

Twin engine aircraft.

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
#222 Richard de Crespigny: The Pilot Who Saved 440 Qantas Passengers

And your QF-32, what was...

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
#222 Richard de Crespigny: The Pilot Who Saved 440 Qantas Passengers

You had one engine down out of four engines?

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
#222 Richard de Crespigny: The Pilot Who Saved 440 Qantas Passengers

Yes.

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
#222 Richard de Crespigny: The Pilot Who Saved 440 Qantas Passengers

What happened?

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
#222 Richard de Crespigny: The Pilot Who Saved 440 Qantas Passengers

Why did it blow up?

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
#222 Richard de Crespigny: The Pilot Who Saved 440 Qantas Passengers

Fuel was coming out.

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
#222 Richard de Crespigny: The Pilot Who Saved 440 Qantas Passengers

We being who?

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
#222 Richard de Crespigny: The Pilot Who Saved 440 Qantas Passengers

Of the A380.

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
#222 Richard de Crespigny: The Pilot Who Saved 440 Qantas Passengers

To allocate resources.