Posted on 10/05/2023 2:09:37 PM PDT by spirited irish
Delta, American, United and Southwest Airlines have discovered that unapproved jet engine parts with fake safety certificates have been installed inside their planes.
The airline companies and the European Union Aviation Safety Agency have claimed that AOG Technics, a leading global aircraft support provider to the air transport industry, sold them the fake parts. The airlines stated that AOG Technics falsified the required airworthiness documents for the spare parts and mass-produced artificial safety certificates in order to sell its engine parts to them.
Parts sold by the problematic company have been found in 126 engines across the airlines and several questions have been raised over the effectiveness of the aviation industry’s safety oversight measures.
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I heard that some turbine blades were made of balsa wood.
“Diversity is our strength”!
There were recycled electronic components being cleaned up, repainted and sold as new that ended up in aviontics some years back. They were coming from China.
Our diversity is our strength!
My understanding is that they may not be fake, rather not quality controlled to meet aircraft standards. A bolt that is used on a aircraft seat may be the same bolt you could buy at an Ace Hardware. The difference is a reputable aircraft parts seller has them certified so that an $0.89 bolt may cost $39.95 because of the testing & certification for aircraft.
Have you bought a kitchen appliance lately, A refrigerator, or washing machine. They are crap. The ones I bought in the 1970s lasted 30 years. The ones I bought in the last decade did not make it out of that decade. Some did not last half that. They say the car about pollution and carbon. When you make a bad product send it over seas and install it. Then have to throw it out and redo it in a quarter of the time, think of the materials and energy wasted.
The problem is that a genuine certified aircraft part has a huge cost adder attached. Between certification and testing and liability insurance, a $1 part can cost 50-60 bucks. So the incentive to cheat is quite strong.
I worked at a company that builds piston engines for general aviation. We had fasteners in stores that we sold for over $100 apiece as “Genuine OEM Parts”.
And here I thought government parts were ridiculously expensive. How wrong I was!
The military would have a Safety Stand Down and be done with it quickly.
The industry is already behind the 8-ball. Boeing should be all over this. AOG Technics would have authorized inspectors all over its operation and specific reasons will be found why sub-standard parts made it into our inventory.
Human lives are at stake. Zero defects.
And all top management at AOG Technics are in jail right??
Yep, looks totally legit.
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