Suicide pilot cleared by Qantas.Professor said Qantas did not adequately addressed pilot's mental illness. Read his report before you book. I state again that, in the circumstances, and keeping safety in mind, you should not have been allowed to fly from that time. Further, you should not have been allowed to fly again, until there was unequivocal evidence that you had completed a successful course of treatment. Taking all of the above into consideration, I believe there is strong clinical evidence that you developed OCD in 1978 at the time when you felt a compulsion to crash your car. The second and more significant episode of OCD occurred on 29 August 1979, with a similar episode on 30 August 1979, but against a background of slowly increasing phobic anxiety. Your then recent onset of OCD raises significant safety issues. Even assuming a less stringent concern about safety matters at the time, you should have been stood down from flying. Further, you should have not been allowed to return to your aviation career until safety could be guaranteed.
Read the report from leading psychiatrist Dr. Jonathan Phillips showing the error of Qantas. Click here BEFORE you fly.
Read how Qantas broke the law in clearing me to fly.
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Anxious Qantas pilot restrained

Sir Hudson Fysh, founder of Qantas writes on INTEGRITY
Integrity is the greatest asset a Company or an individual can possess. In all our dealings, inside and outside the Company, integrity should be taken first and the spirit of an agreement taken before the letter....Always keep out of Court whenever this is possible with honour and fair dealing. Companies or people having frequent Court actions are usually not of the best repute, and it is bad publicity anyhow.
from Ethics and Other Things: A Souvenir of Qantas Service, by Qantas Chairman Hudson Fysh, May 1955

Qantas directors TAKE NOTE. Could you look him in the eyes and not feel guilty for your irresponsible behaviour?

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Anxious pilot restrained as Qantas passenger jet landed Click here
Do you still want to fly Qantas? Engine failures, Pilot failures. Unlicensed Engineers. What next?
Do you wonder if an airline that can't take care of their pilots
has a similar attitude in the way it services you and/or their aircraft?



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June 2007 (over two years later) .. Qantas have not replied to my email below. Do you think it is because my book is the terrifying truth? Surely if the facts were not correct they would have told me by now. Do you think this is a similar case to the employees of James Hardie?
Before you fly read my book and see the terror I was put through.
email this site to your friends before they make a booking .

An email sent to Qantas 18/04/05
Mr. Wes Nobelius, ( unethical?) Qantas solicitor. (Now Deputy General Counsel)
Dear Mr. Nobelius,
I have not had a reply from you re my earlier emails on my book' One Obsession, Two obsession, Three obsession, Four or Qantas Jet Star. I have asked Qantas before to submit any objections to the contents of this book before it is published but without the courtesy of a reply. So that the travelling public can witness the unwillingness of Qantas to accept responsibility for their medical negligence towards me, I am now asking once again in an open letter. If you reply I would be pleased to put it on my web sites, but we all know that nothing will be forthcoming. DO YOU HAVE ANY OBJECTIONS TO THE CLAIMS MADE BY BRYAN GRIFFIN IN HIS BOOK DETAILING THE MISTREATMENT OF HIM AS DESCRIBED BY PSYCHIATRIST JONATHAN PHILLIPS. Click here
You can't hide behind your might with this ex pilot.
Yours sincerely,Bryan Griffin


Imagine your adrenalin is being excited by the roar of the 747 engines as you thunder down the runway on take off.

If just after 'lift off' there was a sudden hush from those massive engines, your heart would be in your mouth, pumping as it had never done before. Your white knuckles would be the result of clutching the arm rest or the person next to you with the power of a vice as you thought you were about to die before your time.

All those things you should have done. Here you are in a 747 that thinks it is an injured butterfly, floundering down to earth except this one has up to 150,000 litres (150 cubic metres ) of aviation fuel in its belly, waiting to burst into life.

My terrifying book is not fiction but what could have happened, as Qantas cleared me to fly after I told them of my compulsive disorder to shut down all four engines. I flew until I couldn't stand the terror any more, as take off was now my brain's desired time to strike.



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 Leading Australian psychiatrist Dr. J. Phillips stated:
On my evaluation Mr. Griffin experienced a worsening of his symptoms generally as a consequence of QANTAS expecting him to continue flying and failing to organise appropriate medical retirement.
Read his report   Click Here

Do you wonder if an airline that can't take care of their pilots
has a similar attitude in the way it services you and/or their aircraft?
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Contact Bryan Griffin at bryan@qantasjetstar.com mobile 0437234654
See my other book 'The life story of Santa Claus'

Why would an airline clear a pilot to fly with this psychiatrist report? Qantas did.
This man now has a neurotic phobic anxiety reaction which has been in acute form for 5 years and has become markedly worse for the last 4 or 5 days. It is likely that this disorder will continue without treatment and that he will experience further panic attacks similar to the one he had on the flight last Friday. Those symptoms could be relieved by anxiety controlling drugs but these may effect his ability to fly and therefore would be no answer while on duty.
Read this diagnosis
Why would an airline clear a pilot to fly with this psychiatrist report? Qantas did.
In summary there is no doubt that he presents a case of phobic anxiety state, a fairly common neurosis
Read this diagnosis

Air Navigation Orders state 3.3 Mental fitness
(a) The applicant shall have no established medical history or clinical diagnosis of either of the following.
(i) a psychosis
(ii) any personality disorder severe enough to have repeatedly resulted in overt acts.
(2) The applicant shall have no established medical history or clinical diagnosis of a mental abnormality, personality disorder, neurosis, alcoholism or drug dependence which makes it likely that within two years of the examination, he will be unable to safely exercise the privileges of the licence or the rating applied for or held.
The Qantas doctor was an approved medical examiner of airmen
and I consider he broke the Air Navigation Orders by renewing my licence.
Don't put your head in the sand. It's YOUR life, not theirs.
Ask them if they know of any other pilots with a mental illness.
YES   If you can get an answer from them please send it to me.
If you can't, when booking a flight think of 'Bryan Griffin' and
and wonder if another Qantas pilot could be like me and allowed to fly.( Yes he was)
Here it is in black and white. Would you have wanted to fly with me?
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Phone Qantas with your thoughts on their duty of care.
Pilot suicide does happen.
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In 2000 a Qantas solicitor threatened me with legal action if I didn't remove my web site. They couldn't argue with the truth then, nor can they now?
Read his letter
See graph of chain of events.
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Contact Bryan Griffin at bryan@qantasjetstar.com
No, Melissa (not to be trusted) Thomson doesn't work here,
but you can see the saga she was involved in starting when she mislead Bryan at www.qantaspilot.com