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Escalating scandal grips airlines including American and Southwest, as nearly 100 planes find fake parts from company with fake employees that vanished overnight (fortune.com)

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Escalating scandal grips airlines including American and Southwest, as nearly 100 planes find fake parts from company with fake employees that vanished overnight::Why are so many flights getting canceled or delayed? Blame a mysterious British supplier accused of falsified documents for plane components.

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[–] [email protected] 129 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (57 children)

My father has been designing and building bespoke aircraft for 45 years, was an FAA test pilot, inspector, and trainer for most of that time, and was in the US Air Force during the Korean War. He has more aviation experience than most.

His license plate reads GO RAIL and he won’t fly commercial if he can avoid it.

e: I am not surprised.

[–] [email protected] 116 points 1 year ago (26 children)

Sure, but... commercial airliners almost never crash?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (25 children)

Most planes in general don’t crash, fwiw. Most trains and cars don’t, either.