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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

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.

kaput ,

That’s a clever scam. The magic is all in the name. AOG stand for Aircraft On Ground. Whenever there is a sefty risk identified, the rules says authorities and the industry must be advised within 24h. When a customer call about an AOG there is no 24h thing must happen right fucking now. Safety issues mean a plane could fall someday maybe, but AOG mean loosing money right now, by the minutes. So if you have a distributor that can send a part that will get the plane off the ground, with a bunch of papers it’s getting sold for a high price.

Etterra ,

Sir, we’ve discovered that these fuselages that we have been installing for the last 3 months are all made out of paper mache.

CEO: Shit we’re going to get sued! Do anything else to tell me?

We opened up a black box and nothing was inside except for Three paper clips and a dead 9v battery.

OrteilGenou ,

Right, well, best shellac the paper mache and get going

Raiderkev ,

Just flew southwest twice last week… cool cool cool cool.

rosymind ,

Hey, you just survived twice last week. It’s something…

Harpsist ,

But. “flying the safest mode of transport”

And people wonder why I hate flying.

postmateDumbass ,

Fly by night industry indeed.

Agent641 ,

When we looked for the autopilot computer, we just found a small, tired indian man in a compartment

postmateDumbass ,

indian Turkish

Sir_Simon_Spamalot ,

Turkish Airline now have different meaning

postmateDumbass ,

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk

Pretzilla ,

*Automan

Malfeasant ,

Underrated comment…

OrteilGenou ,

Otto pilot

CthulhuOnIce ,

Flying southwest 3 times in November, wish me luck fellas

Agent641 , (edited )

May the odds be ever in your favour

FanaticFoe ,

May the odds be ever in your favor.

OrteilGenou ,

May the sod never be in your collar

Something like that I’m not good at this

Pixelle3D ,
@Pixelle3D@midwest.social avatar

I hate planes and flying. Just another reason to add to the pile.

Fuck Planes

verdantbanana ,
@verdantbanana@lemmy.world avatar

this is occuring in other industries as well to the point of affecting a lot of stuff surprised there is not more articles pertaining to this

grayman ,

Right to repair your tractor? Hell no!

Fake ass parts with MTBF of a few hundred hours installed by the dealer? Yeah that’s cool!

Thanks regulatory capture and corrupt govt!!!

Restaldt ,

Oh cool wardogs 2: the enshittification with jonah hill should be dope

boatswain ,

Boo, paywall. Anyone have a list of the affected airlines?

Toine ,

Preprend 12ft.io/ to the URL: 12ft.io/…/why-so-many-flights-canceled-delayed-ao…

OskarAxolotl ,

First time I see that website actually working.

ilikekeyboards ,

Tbh better for the consumer to pay for a newspaper than have it run by some billionaire who can afford to run it endlessly free of charge just so he can propagate his world view.

For example, The Washington Post now run owned by Jeff bezos give all the free articles how keeping the billionaire class and cooking the planet is actually a good thing

pascal ,

Real news costs money while fake news are free. Guess what happens?

Kit ,

Southwest, United, American Airlines, Virgin Australia

roboticide ,

Glad I fly Delta, even with the typically higher cost.

Bootheal0179 ,
@Bootheal0179@lemmy.world avatar

I bought my Technics Direct-drive turntable Model SL-Q20 in 1981 or 1982, still working like a champ.

Aux ,

Can you fly on it?

Bootheal0179 ,
@Bootheal0179@lemmy.world avatar

Did, back in the day. I’d put on my Pink Floyd “Dark Side of the Moon” and we’d get real high.

postmateDumbass ,

Now boarding Liquid Sky Direct airlines.

Gate 25.

circuscritic ,

Well that’s great news. Give me 15 minutes and a Xerox, and I’ll have that bad boy certified to be installed into the avionics of a 737.

XeroxCool ,

OK I’m here but I don’t know what to do with our 15 minutes together

Agent641 ,

Now kith

RobotToaster ,
@RobotToaster@mander.xyz avatar

You wouldn’t download a jet engine…

MedicPigBabySaver ,

Wanna bet… 3D printing is amazing! 😉

sebinspace ,

But is your 3D printer amazing?

MedicPigBabySaver ,

Best, it’s beautiful, bigly…

grayman ,

youtu.be/qsvpU7G5IJg

Gsus4 ,
@Gsus4@feddit.nl avatar

So what happened to the whole “every part is tracked from production to installation and through maintenance checks?”

RunningInRVA ,

It sounds like it is and that’s how they were able to catch on to this fake parts company.

fmstrat ,

I think he means, why didn’t they catch the first one?

Stumblinbear ,
@Stumblinbear@pawb.social avatar

You’ve tracked them, but that doesn’t mean you’ve followed up at every second of every day to see if the company still exists.

nucleative ,

This is the right answer. When we perform maintenance on our aircraft there’s a logbook entry that contains very specific details about the part that went in, such as its serial number, but really that’s so the insurance company can track down the culprit after the crash. Not many individuals are doing the tracing themselves.

RunningInRVA ,

I think there is trust in the system because the part came with all the necessary paperwork and everything checks out. In this case the shady parts company was forging certification documents from other manufacturers. That’s going to be hard to catch no matter how effective the system is.

Kimano ,

Yeah, it’ll be easy to catch if you actually dig into it, but if you’re not given a reason to, it might take a while to catch; which is exactly what happened

SuddenlyBlowGreen ,

Several of the filings are riddled with typos, including misspelled executive titles and oddly capitalized words that appear to have happened when someone hit caps lock instead of the “A” key.

Everything checking out:

“Several of the filings are riddled with typos, including misspelled executive titles and oddly capitalized words that appear to have happened when someone hit caps lock instead of the “A” key.”

grayman ,

Nor did they ensure the credentials were legitimate, which is super hard if you’re not specifically looking for it and aware it’s occurring. Someone had insider knowledge and exploited a vulnerability.

kaput ,

Dock To stock policies and “there is no added value in inspection” LEAN sucks.

elshanerino ,

that’s how they figured this out.

if aviation parts were like auto parts, it would be next to impossible to trace which jets had the bogus parts and how long it had been installed

Wooki ,

It’s called outsourcing. You outsource the risk and it magically goes away….

Or does it.

JonEFive ,

It sort of does. “Our vendor signed legally binding documents that they were responsible for vetting and verifying all parts. Sue them, not us.”

Unless by risk you mean an airplane falling out of the sky…

Wooki , (edited )

Risk impact comes in all forms from: it did nothing, to it destroyed our reputation, or even we killed people. Measuring risk impact and understanding the risks are very incredibly important and outsourcing & hiding the risks behind a contract can’t protect your company’s reputation or the people killed at the end of the day

sndrtj ,

I am very glad my next international trip will by by train.

veroxii ,

Harder to do for us in Australia.

PinkPanther ,

Harder, but not impossible.

DrDr ,

How exactly would you leave Australia by train?

MusketeerX ,

Train goes onto ship, ship sails out, train continues on the other end :)

BearOfaTime ,

Fine. Take my upvote, dad

sndrtj ,

This actually exists in a couple places. For instance, the rail connection between mainland Italy and Sicily is by boat with the train on the boat.

DrDr ,

Lol

PinkPanther ,

Use your imagination!

heydo ,

A really big ramp

Gorgritch_umie_killa ,
@Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone avatar

Alright, alright! I’ll let you borrow my emu for the week.

Dozzi92 ,
@Dozzi92@lemmy.world avatar

Hard for us in America too, but it’s because our trains suck.

phoenixz ,

Until it derails die to shitty track maintenance, or a drunk consuctor

Accidents happen everywhere and airplanes are about the safest mode of transport

Dozzi92 ,
@Dozzi92@lemmy.world avatar

I prefer my crashes to be remedied by holding a button for seven seconds.

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