Airbus mistakes Austria for Australia
Print Edition
AUSTRIA and Australia are 16,000 kilometers and two keystrokes apart, as European aircraft maker Airbus discovered to its chagrin this week.
The Financial Times, citing fine print in the company’s 2016 financial accounts, said on Monday that Airbus was being investigated by authorities in Australia for offenses such as bribery or fraud.
The Airbus accounts did indeed say Australia, but a company spokesman said that was a typographical error.
“It should read Austria and not Australia,” he said.
In February, Airbus said prosecutors in Vienna had initiated a formal criminal investigation against Airbus and the Eurofighter consortium over alleged fraud related to a US$2 billion order for the combat jet more than a decade ago.
The typo in the Airbus accounts is the latest in a series of mix-ups between the two similarly named but culturally distinct and geographically distant countries.
Global news network CNN was mocked by Twitter users last year for reporting Australia was building a fence on its Slovenian border.
In 2014, then United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon mistakenly offered his gratitude to hosts Australia when he spoke at a conference in Vienna, according to an Associated Press report.
- About Us
- |
- Terms of Use
- |
-
RSS - |
- Privacy Policy
- |
- Contact Us
- |
- Shanghai Call Center: 962288
- |
- Tip-off hotline: 52920043
- 沪ICP证：沪ICP备05050403号-1
- |
- 互联网新闻信息服务许可证：31120180004
- |
- 网络视听许可证：0909346
- |
- 广播电视节目制作许可证：沪字第354号
- |
- 增值电信业务经营许可证：沪B2-20120012
Copyright © 1999- Shanghai Daily. All rights reserved.Preferably viewed with Internet Explorer 8 or newer browsers.
