Qantas: Prisoners Are Not Cleaning Our Planes

Mar 13th, 2007 | By Jared Blank

Qantas is denying accusations that the airline is using prisoners to clean aircraft at Singapore’s airport. An engineering group says that prisoners on a day release program from a local prison were cleaning Qantas’ aircraft before they went in for maintenance. I have no idea what this is all about, but it seemed a little odd. I’ll let you know if anything comes of this.

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