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	Airbus affair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Airbus affair refers to allegations of secret commissions paid to members of the Government of Canada during the term of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney in exchange for then-crown corporation Air Canada's purchase of a large order of Airbus jets.
		The contract was eventually won by Airbus in 1988, with an order for 34 Airbus A330s and A340's, as well as the sale of some of Air Canada's existing Boeing 747 fleet.
		The allegations were made in a letter sent by the RCMP to the government of Switzerland seeking access to banking records.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Airbus_affair (610 words)

	Karlheinz Schreiber - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He is chiefly known for his alleged role in the 1999 CDU contributions scandal in Germany, which damaged the political legacy of Helmut Kohl, and the Airbus affair in Canada which was linked through allegation to former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.
		He was a fundraiser for the Christian Democratic Party and Christian Social Union in West Germany during Helmut Kohl's chancellorship and was a figure in the party financing scandal that erupted in 1999 discrediting Kohl's political legacy.
		He was a key figure in Canada's Airbus affair in which he was alleged to have arranged secret commissions to be paid to Brian Mulroney and lobbyist Frank Moores in exchange for then Crown corporation Air Canada's purchase of Airbus jets.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Karlheinz_Schreiber (375 words)

	The Observer \| Business \| The war in the air - Boeing battles airbus
		Airbus had to explain why with more than half the orders it had less than half the value.
		Airbus has been beaten all ends up: its A350 outsold by Boeing's 787 and orders for the A380 superjumbo dried up.
		Airbus knows that predicting the future is a mug's game, particularly when the key driver of 2005, the oil price, is so volatile.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /business/story/0,,1692001,00.html (247 words)

	Search: Airbus - FOX News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Airbus Acknowledges Fuselage Problems - Monday, July 24, 2006 - PARIS — Airbus acknowledged Monday it had reinforced the rear fuselage of its superjumbo A380 after problems were detected, but...
		Airbus' advances in technology and design will be applied to the new A350 XWB, which is...
		Airbus is planning on turning the controls of its planes over to Skynet friendly onboard computer copilots in case of emergen...
	search.foxnews.com /_1_Z39T2S0335DDT5__info.foxnws/search/web/Airbus (621 words)

	The Failed Crusade Against Airbus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Airbus was an exception to this pattern, and in addition, it appeared to vindicate the European view that government has a explicit role to play in national economic development.
		Airbus was created in 1969 by the French and West German governments and their state-run aircraft manufacturers as a deliberate attempt to challenge the dominance of American commercial aircraft producers (Britain and Spain have since then also joined the program).
		Some have taken a lesson from the Airbus affair, urging the U.S. government and American industries to be much more careful about approving trade agreements that are so obviously weak and unenforceable, and spend more time strengthening the country's economic base.
	www.aliciapatterson.org /APF1404/Dryden/Dryden.html (2597 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Business \| Q&A: Airbus and EADS
		The Franco-German consortium, which owns the bulk of Airbus, is banking on the success of the A380 superjumbo for its future growth.
		Airbus and Boeing are fighting a fierce battle for pre-eminence in the fast-growing global aviation market.
		While Airbus overtook Boeing in 2003 in terms of aircraft sold, experts believe Boeing may emerge on top in 2006 in terms of the value of sales.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/business/5095462.stm (778 words)

	Norwaves Volume 2, Number 11, 1994
		A unanimous Foreign Affairs Committee expressed strong suspicion that the attempted murder of William Nygaard, director of a publishing house, is connected with Iran's death sentence against Rushdie.
		The Wiker Committee is an official committee that has been charged with investigating the Airbus affair and the suspicion of illegal transactions by the banks.
		This affair is serious enough in its own right, but it also exposes a culture of wheeling and dealing in high places in segments of the business community, leaving many of those involved with little semblance of honour.
	www.norwaves.com /norwaves/Volume2_1994/v2nw11.html (4323 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Airbus planes were more fuel efficient than American ones, and had large seating capacities, which was just what airline companies wanted aft er the cost of oil soared in the Seventies.
		The Airbus consortium, which now has a whole \ldblquote family\rdblquote of commercial planes built with an estimated $13 billion in government aid since 1970, is the world \rquote s number two supplier.
		An examination of the history of the Airbus dispute reveals three fundamental problems: the original aircraft agreement was deeply flawed; American manufacturers have given conflicting advice to the U.S. governm ent; and the government itself has been divided over what tactics to use.
	www.aliciapatterson.org /APF1404/Dryden/Dryden.rtf (2574 words)

	The A320 (David Lednicer, Dr Peter B Ladkin, Ken Hoyme, Michael T. Palmer, Robert Dorsett, Terrell D. Drinkard, Henry ...
		Airbus says that there is now enough experience to justify dispatching an A320 with one of its seven flight-control computers dead; the original rule required all to be functioning.
		Airbus is faced with the contradictory problems of "protecting" against gross incompetence (safety issues which IT defined as problems, and which its marketing people ran away with), without being able to "protect" from the types of mismanagement their own extreme, and unrealistic, protections appear to engender.
		Airbus (in the A320, and presumably the A340 and A330), on the other hand, seems to use smart-logic to default to an "on" state which is completely dark.
	yarchive.net /air/airliners/a320.html (19030 words)

	Trouble on the tarmac \| Hard News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Boeing deal worth about US$ 7 billion (Rs 30,000 crore) for Air-India promises to be a murky affair, with the US government supporting it and France endorsing the demand by the Airbus consortium for a vigilance probe.
		The last time India bought an aircraft in 1987, an Airbus for Indian Airlines, there were blistering charges against the Rajiv Gandhi government of accepting bribes.
		What rankled Airbus Industrie was that the Indian Airlines order, still not really approved, isa piddling US$ 2 billion in comparison to the Boeing deal, which was a massive US$ 7 billion.
	www.hardnewsmedia.com /portal/2005/06/85 (688 words)

	CanadianGrassroots.ca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		But then, there was nothing common about the Airbus affair -- not the manner in which it was undertaken nor certainly the major target of the investigation, former prime minister Brian Mulroney.
		Mulroney was involved in criminal wrongdoing regarding the purchase of 34 Airbus planes by Air Canada in 1988.
		But this was a rare moment of regret for a government that seemed -- throughout the Airbus affair -- to act in an extraordinarily high-handed manner.
	www.canadiangrassroots.ca /sections.php?op=printpage&artid=2933 (664 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Business \| Turbulent times troubling Airbus
		The affair has created a political storm, which political analyst Dominique Moisi described as "the cost of the dangerous marriage between industry and politics at the level of the elite".
		Mr de Villepin was put on the spot in the French parliament this week by the opposition leader, Francois Hollande who suggested that the government was prepared to turn a blind eye to the misbehaviour of corporate leaders.
		The Airbus A380 was meant to be a flagship of European cooperation and engineering excellence.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/business/5105312.stm (670 words)

	French PM Draws Back From EADS Conflict
		Apologizing for causing uproar in parliament during a heated debate over Airbus parent EADS on Tuesday, Villepin said urgent action was needed on A380 superjumbo delays but declined a chance to clarify his doubts over an EADS shareholder pact.
		EADS and Airbus are reeling after fresh delays in Airbus A380 superjumbo deliveries triggered an EADS profit warning and a 26 percent drop in its shares last week.
		Villepin's remarks reflect the government's fury that it was not warned in advance of Airbus problems and that its hands are tied while opponents exploit an opportunity to maximize its embarrassment following a climb-down on gas privatization.
	news.airwise.com /story/view/1150930073.html (749 words)

	Edited Hansard * Table of Contents * Number 099 (Official Version) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Getting back to the committee meeting we were referring to, the member for Scarborough--Rouge River believed that if the committee conducted such an inquiry with the police investigation still in process the RCMP's case might be jeopardized, but the members did agree that at some point down the road an inquiry should be done.
		There should be a thorough and public fumigating of the events surrounding the $1.8 billion purchase of European Airbus passenger jets by Air Canada during Mulroney's tenure.
		A thorough, comprehensive and independent inquiry into all aspects of the Airbus affair is an excellent idea.
	www.parl.gc.ca /37/1/parlbus/chambus/house/debates/099_2001-10-22/han099_1520-e.htm (710 words)

	cbc.ca
		The German-Canadian businessman accused of tax evasion on Airbus sales to Air Canada is one step closer to being extradited to Germany.
		The German government has accused Karlheinz Schreiber of fraud, bribery and failure to pay tax on $20 million in commissions related to sales in the 1980s of Airbus jets to Canada and Thailand.
		Schreiber was the focus of the so-called "Airbus affair," in which it was alleged millions of dollars in secret commissions were paid in a kickback scheme involving the sale of the jets to Air Canada.
	www.cbc.ca /cgi-bin/templates/email.cgi?/2004/05/18/canada/schreiber (235 words)

	Thursday, June 13, 1996-- ORAL QUESTION PERIOD (061) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Negotiations and litigation for the settlement of cases are for lawyers and should be left to the lawyers acting for the parties.
		Yesterday, the Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs was asked about the Charlottetown style model of federal-provincial relations that the government is putting forward and he said, and I quote: ``The Government of Quebec has certain responsibilities.
		The purpose of the involvement of the Department of Foreign Affairs in culture is not to provide basic subsidies to groups, it is to promote Canadian culture abroad.
	www.parl.gc.ca /35/2/parlbus/chambus/house/debates/061_96-06-13/061OQ1E.html (7974 words)

	A Secret Trial
		In his bestselling "Presumed Guilty" Kaplan chronicled the corruption charges surrounding the 1988 $1.8 billion purchase by Air Canada of passenger airplanes from European giant Airbus Industries, concluding that Mulroney had been the victim of a campaign of unfounded allegation and reckless inuendo.
		Kaplan finally sets the record straight about the Airbus affair and reveals the culture of court secrecy that Mulroney and Cameron manipulated for their own use.
		William Kaplan is the author of numerous books, including Presumed Guilty: Brian Mulroney, the Airbus Affair and the Government of Canada, One More Border: The True Story of One Family's Escape From War-Torn Europe, and Bad Judgment: The Case of Mr.
	www.mqup.mcgill.ca /book.php?bookid=1759 (549 words)

	CTV.ca \| RCMP close decade-long Airbus investigation
		The RCMP is finally closing the file on the Airbus affair after a decade-long investigation.
		The RCMP had been investigating the former prime minister over allegations that he accepted kickbacks from a German company that sold $1.8-billion worth of 34 Airbus jetliners to Air Canada in 1988.
		At the time, letters from the Justice Department were leaked to the media alleging the Tories had been involved in a kickback scheme.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1051037982302_32 (417 words)

	NORMAN'S SPECTATOR
		Two years ago, when I agreed to write an afterword to William Kaplan's sequel on the Airbus affair (a book in which I have no financial interest), little did I imagine the pre-emptive pressures that top-flight and well-connected lawyers could put on publishers.
		We know he was wise enough to engage lobbyists and form friendships on both sides of the political street.
		And we know that the Airbus affair is one factor in Canada's declining ranking in Transparency International's corruption index.
	members.shaw.ca /nspector3/globe210.htm (687 words)

	Eye Weekly - The mercenary - 01.27.00
		Schreiber, a multimillionaire arms broker, is wanted by German authorities for tax evasion and bribery and to answer questions about his role in the largest political scandal to rock postwar Germany -- one that could lead to the prosecution of former chancellor Helmut Kohl.
		But his biggest deal was arranging the $1.8 billion sale of 34 Airbus planes to Air Canada in 1988.
		Frank Moores sat on the board of Air Canada for a brief time and was on the board of a company that belonged to the Airbus consortium.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_01.27.00/news/greenspan.html (2620 words)

	Norwaves Volume 3, Number 1, 1995
		This letter is the last step of the investigation before the Oslo tax office submits a recommendation on additional taxes or penalty taxes to the tax assessment board.
		TODAY'S COMMENT: The Prime Minister has denied the allegations that she has intervened in the Airbus affair, and to all appearances, she is telling the truth.
		However, there are certain indications that someone close to the PM may have had some involvement in the matter.
	www.norwaves.com /norwaves/Volume3_1995/v3nw01.html (3218 words)

	EU Says Deal Possible In Boeing-Airbus Row
		The two sides' failure to meet their deadline had raised the prospect the lawsuits would resume, but both sides have said there is still a window of opportunity for negotiation.
		However, the United States has warned it would resume its case against the European Union at the WTO if EU member states approved a new round of support for Airbus.
		Washington took its case to the WTO first, worried that fresh "launch aid" loans from EU states for Airbus's latest offering, the A350, could challenge Boeing's new 787 -- a 250 seat airliner.
	news.airwise.com /story/view/1113995374.html (223 words)

	The Risks Digest Volume 9: Issue 74
		Below are excerpts from three reports related to the Feb. 14th Airbus crash which appeared in the weekly edition of The Statesman, an English language newspaper published from Calcutta and New Delhi.
		-- Preliminary investigations into the Airbus crash at Bangalore yesterday are reported to be focusing on the sudden drop in height of the aircraft as it was on its final approach for landing at the runway of the airport, reports PTI [Press Trust of India].
		The crash of an Airbus A320 in India in mid February, in which 90 people were killed, is due to carelessness of the pilot.
	catless.ncl.ac.uk /Risks/9.74.html (3442 words)

	CTV.ca \| Mulroney cleared in Airbus investigation
		Former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney is relieved that the RCMP is finally closing the file on the Airbus affair after a decade-long investigation, says a senator who is close to the family.
		She says the affair always seemed to her to be a personal vendetta launched by the governing Liberals.
		The matter was settled out of court and Mulroney received an apology from the government and a reported $2 million.
	ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1051100204869_194/?hub=Canada (625 words)

	Has Canada gone nuts? - Political Forums
		But on a good note --Brian Mulroney won a successful Crown appeal and was shown that that allegations against Mulroney in the 'Airbus scandal' have no legal legs at all--it's all over for all you diehards who thought Mulroney was a guilty man in all of this.
		Mulroney on the back but am simply glad to see this 'Airbus affair' come to an end after years of unsubstantiated 'hen pecking' which is fairly minor compared to ADSCAM anyways concerning the level of corruption and amount of dollars involved.
		The judge did no such thing, he stated quite clearly that it was not proven that he was guilty nothing more and no it was not minor compared to adscam, in fact it was far worse.
	www.mapleleafweb.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=4268 (2184 words)

	Norwaves Volume 3, Number 3, 1995
		This would make it necessary for "No to the EU" to revert from the stand- by which will probably be adopted at the organization's national convention in March, and return to active duty.
		Godal observed that fundamental human rights are being violated, and he urged that every effort be made to bring the fighting to a halt.
		TODAY'S COMMENT: Two representatives submitted questions on the Airbus affair during yesterday's Question Time in the Storting, giving Finance Minister Sigbjoern Johnsen another opportunity to clarify whatever contact had - or by his own account had hardly - taken place between the Ministry and the Directorate of Taxes in connection with the case last autumn.
	www.norwaves.com /norwaves/Volume3_1995/v3nw03.html (3514 words)

	globeandmail.com : Airbus/Eurocopter chronology
		Moores becomes an Air Canada director but leaves soon after because Airbus, bidding for a big contract, is another GCI client.
		Airbus also enlists Schreiber's IAL to help market in Canada.
		Among the accusations: A German firm overrode angry protests from its Canadian executives and paid illegal commissions in the hopes of landing a lucrative federal government contract, according to RCMP allegations.
	www.theglobeandmail.com /servlet/story/RTGAM.20051125.weurocchron1125/BNStory/Front (742 words)

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