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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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[–] 8 points 3 years ago (7 children)

The FRA (federal railway administration) is scary. I would trust a train for sure.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Wasn't everybody saying the opposite like 3 months ago?

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    That’s freight rail. Freight rail is a full blown late-stage capitalist hellscape. Aging infrastructure that hasn’t seen maintenance since the New Deal, companies that refuse to update equipment because paying out lawsuits when it breaks is cheaper, overworked employees who aren’t even allowed to call out sick, etc…

    Compared to that, passenger rail is a fucking pipedream.

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