
#222 Richard de Crespigny: The Pilot Who Saved 440 Qantas Passengers
From Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
Published 12/17/2025

From Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
Published 12/17/2025
Richard de Crespigny is the former Qantas A380 captain who was pilot-in-command of Qantas Flight 32, which suffered a catastrophic uncontained engine failure shortly after take-off from Singapore in 2010 with 440 people on board. In this episode, Richard takes us inside the cockpit to explain how…