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.
Bona fides. Means good faith.
“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.”
That’s the problem. It was probably a downstream supplier to a subcontractor of a subcontractor that saved a few bucks by buying Chinese knock-offs. Companies outsource as much as possible, it saves money but makes quality control impossible.