Lauda air flight 004 biography of christopher
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A horrific accident left him on the brink of death. One year later, he was champion of the world
“25 DRIVERS start every season in Formula One, and each year, two of us die. What kind of person does a job like this? Not normal men, for sure.”
The above words are spoken by the character of Niki Lauda, played bygd Daniel Brühl, in the 2013 biographical sports film ‘Rush,’ directed by Ron Howard.
The movie depicts the rivalry that existed between two of Formula One’s top competitors of the 1970s– Lauda, an Austrian driver with Ferrari and British star James Hunt of McLaren.
These opening lines set up the theme of the film nicely — it’s essentially about how much F1 stars are willing to risk and how close they come to death in order to attain greatness, or simply for the pure thrill of living in the moment, depending on your perspective.
Lauda is portrayed as the more cautious and pragmatic type, obsessed with cars and how they operate. Hunt, by contrast, is the much more fun-lov
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Christoph Mueller
German airline CEO
For other people with this name, see Christoph Müller (disambiguation).
Christoph Mueller | |
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| Born | (1961-12-17) 17 December 1961 (age 63) Wuppertal, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Alma mater | University of Cologne |
| Occupation | Businessman |
| Spouse | Divorced |
Christoph R. Mueller (born 17 December 1961) is a German businessman. From 2016 to 2019, he was chief digital and innovation officer of Emirates Group. He is the former chief executive officer of Malaysia Airlines. With over 25 years' experience as a turnaround expert in the aviation, logistic and tourism industry, Mueller has been widely credited with leading the financial recovery of Aer Lingus.[1][2]
Career
[edit]Mueller holds an MBA from the University of Cologne and completed an Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.[3] In 1989, Mueller joined German airline Lufthansa as a financial analyst in the in
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This book had been on my wishlist for quite some time, but I held off on getting it. The main reason for this was a silly reason in many respects. One of my favourite films is ‘Rush’ (dir. Ron Howard, 2013) and it contains one of my favourite sequences from any film and I was worried that in reading Lauda’s autobiography that I would discover that the scene was a mere work of fiction. I so wanted to believe it was true. As I did with another scene. Autobiographies should be largely accurate (though even they will tend to have things which will be based on inaccurate memories or the author wanting to doctor how they or certain events will be remembered) – documentaries, dramatizations, and films of various sorts are much more likely to have elements of fiction (as I have discussed in other posts in relation to my research about the JL123 crash), even if they are largely accurate.
Two things came together, meaning that I finally got the book.
First, I listene