Three paragraphs and not one word about WHAT PART(S). More drag it out sensationalized writing. Not going there.
Yeah track down the parts, but who were the idiots buying, who were the scamsters sellign nd do we need to nuke China for sabotage of the world's commercial airline service? Those are the critical questions.
For those with reading comprehension issues....
What airlines have found fake parts?
Southwest Airlines was the first major airline to disclose that it had found uncertified parts that originated from AOG Technics in its aircraft. It first became aware of the problem in August “and took necessary steps to ensure we do not have any parts in our fleet from AOG,” the company said. After Southwest’s suppliers conducted a review of its parts the company removed two low pressure turbine blades from one of its jets.
Earlier this week, United became the third airline to disclose it had identified AOG Technics’ bogus parts in its airplanes. Two United jets were found to have had unregistered parts in their engines, the company said. Both planes are undergoing the requisite maintenance to replace the part before being used again. United will “continue to investigate as new information becomes available from our suppliers,” the company said. American Airlines said it would “continue working” with suppliers and the FAA “to ensure these parts are no longer in our supply or otherwise in use on our aircraft.”
Journalism is pretty much dead. What’s with whole sentences as titles? Why no substance?
I’ve worked supplier quality in med device for about 20 yrs.
I’m positive that these airlines didn’t follow proper FAA and qualify procedure requirements to qualify suppliers and parts.
Is the Secretary of Transportation on this, or is he doing Drag Queen Shows or maybe he is still nursing the baby.
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What this says most to me is the airlines did not do sufficient due diligence of their own on this parts supplier. That to me is the real scandal, because their were obvious holes in the company’s bonifieds for some time, which airline companies doing sufficient due diligence would have discovered. No one had to wait till bad parts arrived to find that out. Ah, but then again not all airlines do their own maintenance today, and if they don’t someone else is in charge of securing the right aircraft parts.
The Apollo program in Downey, CA, had strict rules. The manufacture of bolts had to be certified at every step. 1. A single bolt was subjected to rigorous testing. 2. The steel rod it was milled from had been tested. 3. The billet from which the rod was extruded was tested. 4. The ingot from which the billet was forged was tested. 5. They knew where the iron ore had come from. 6. They knew which mine and what shaft the iron ore had come from. That’s how you get a man on the moon.
Never buy airplane parts from a religious denomination.
“American Airlines “identified the uncertified components on a small number of aircraft,””
Make me feel better that only a ‘small number’ of American Airlines flights are going to crash.