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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 (fortune.com)

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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::Why are so many flights getting canceled or delayed? Blame a mysterious British supplier accused of falsified documents for plane components.

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[–] Stumblinbear@pawb.social 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] SuddenlyBlowGreen@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

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."

[–] Kimano@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] grayman@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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.