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Delta is fourth major U.S. airline to find fake jet aircraft engine parts with forged airworthiness documents from U.K. company (fortune.com)
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Delta is fourth major U.S. airline to find fake jet aircraft engine parts with forged airworthiness documents from U.K. company::With forged airworthiness documents from U.K. company

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[–] 117 points 2 years ago (10 children)

I fail to see how someone can understand the aircraft parts industry enough to enter it and become a supplier, and at the same time believe you can get away with forging certifications.

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  • [–] 76 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    You see parts every day. Maybe you make them. They come with a small stack of certs that you add to. You figure nobody will notice if you do a special process yourself and copy a cert. 500 parts or 501? Maybe 510? Maybe you buy material with no certs, but you verify the conductivity and hardness. You know it's the right alloy, but it was cheaper. Who's going to notice? Once you get started, where do you stop?

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    I'd love to see a breaking bad style dram based on this haha.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    It'd be kind of amusing. You could just have a few people in on it and they make it work. Then one of the quality peeps notices some quantities are off. Maybe mix in some source/delegated source or pay off some FAA dfars.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Next thing you know, your brother in law parts inspector is being executed by Nazis and your former partner is about to be enslaved by them to make super high quality fake parts, but you first tell him that you watched his gf get on to a 737 MAX with a fuel gauge that showed imperial system units instead of metric and could have saved her but instead just watched it crash (which also caused her paramedic father to space out and fail to save a heroin OD, which goes to show that dealing with fraudulent plane parts can have a wider impact than just the planes it causes to crash).

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    They made their money. They knew sooner or later they would get caught but it doesn’t matter any money they made more than covers it. Same for companies who decide letting people die and paying claims is cheaper than a full recall

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