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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] 74 points 1 year ago (14 children)

So what happened to the whole "every part is tracked from production to installation and through maintenance checks?"

[–] [email protected] 114 points 1 year ago

that's how they figured this out.

if aviation parts were like auto parts, it would be next to impossible to trace which jets had the bogus parts and how long it had been installed

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