A man described as a pathological liar has been jailed after faking his way into a Qantas engineer's job in a "deliberate and calculated" move that endangered thousands of lives.
Timothy Leslie McCormack was sentenced in a New South Wales District Court to a maximum of three years and five months in prison for posing as a licensed aircraft engineer.
McCormack, who had previously been employed in aircraft maintenance at Qantas, worked undetected in the more senior role for almost 10 months before his deception was discovered in July 2007.
By then, he had conducted 30 "substantial and significant" safety checks on planes leaving Sydney, putting the lives of 12,000 passengers at risk.
His lawyer Sydney Jacobs argued McCormack was a pathological liar.
