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2023-10-05 -Lurid Crime Tales-

America's biggest airlines ground planes as they launch desperate search for THOUSANDS of jet engine parts sold with fake safety certificates

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Prob won't see impact on .MIL aircraft

At least 126 engines across a number of airlines were found to include parts from a jet supplier company under investigation

AOG Technics, a middleman in the aviation industry, is accused of mass-producing fake safety certificates

Fears are mounting over the aviation industry's safety oversight measures amid the scandal

AOG Technics has also faced allegations it faked employees and was using stock photographs for fictitious staffers on LinkedIn
"Your girlfriend? Isn't that Morgan Fairchild?"
"Yeaaaahhh. That's the ticket!"
The most affected engine model was found to be a CFM56, which alarmingly holds the record for most engines ever sold to airlines at over 33,900.

In the UK, where the company lists it address, a judge this week ordered the company to turn over its parts sales documents, and the full extent of the scandal could grow as the records are assessed

Posted by Skidmark 2023-10-05 06:16|| || Front Page|| [20 views ] Top

#1 Parts Made in China were they ?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-10-05 07:26|| 2023-10-05 07:26|| Front Page Top

#2 ^ Possibly.
The WSJ reported that it visited the company's listed address in London, near Buckingham Palace, where reception and security staff said they had not heard of the company.

A representative for the building that leases the spaces told the outlet that AOG Technics was a virtual client and did not hold a space in the location.

Posted by Frank G 2023-10-05 07:33|| 2023-10-05 07:33|| Front Page Top

#3 Steve Lehto had a video on this a few days ago.

Posted by Mullah Richard OTR 2023-10-05 09:04|| 2023-10-05 09:04|| Front Page Top

#4 /\ From the comments section, emphasis added:

@UncleKennysPlace
8 days ago
I do certification work for CFM. The tracking is monumental. But it wouldn't be impossible for someone to fake an entire paper trail, which happened here. It's absolutely, positively a criminal organization doing this, and someone knew how to do it.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-10-05 09:19|| 2023-10-05 09:19|| Front Page Top

#5 JSTARS Flies Its Last Operational Mission Ahead of November Retirement

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-10-05 09:27|| 2023-10-05 09:27|| Front Page Top

#6 Does the BCF have commercial aviation interests ?

Posted by Besoeker 2023-10-05 10:01|| 2023-10-05 10:01|| Front Page Top

#7 EARLIER 9/1/23
Supplier Caught Distributing Fake Parts for World’s Top-Selling Jet Engine

9/20/23
AOG Technics Ordered To Provide Details Of Engine Parts Transactions

Posted by Skidmark 2023-10-05 10:12|| 2023-10-05 10:12|| Front Page Top

#8 What's interesting is, the ISO certifications that this is about dodging (tracability), was foisted on the US by EU because the US didn't have to pay to assimilate the east european countries.
(The EU had to spend a lot on checking and certifying east europe manufacturers, and so decided to force the procedure on the US to kill any price advantage. This created the "ISO" regime that you see on banners everywhere.)
Prior to that, individual companies checked up on suppliers on their own.
People in the audience, raise your hands if you remember 'inspection audits'.

Posted by ed in texas 2023-10-05 11:24|| 2023-10-05 11:24|| Front Page Top

#9 Ref #2 and Frank G. "A representative for the building that leases the spaces told the outlet that AOG Technics was a virtual client and did not hold a space in the location."

The airlines need to scour out their legal departments as well as the purchasing staff. They literally had purchase contracts costing millions of dollars from a company that had no actual physical location and no one noticed? Another proof that our current generation of business elites are naive children!

Posted by NoMoreBS 2023-10-05 12:33|| 2023-10-05 12:33|| Front Page Top

#10 Some company made the mistake of manufacturing their parts in China thinking that they could safeguard their IP. It must have been a giveaway when it was found that all the employees graduated from Bishop Sycamore.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-10-05 12:58|| 2023-10-05 12:58|| Front Page Top

#11 Let me guess.

Anyone who has flown more than four times will be grounded from further flights until this investigation concludes.

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-10-05 13:54|| 2023-10-05 13:54|| Front Page Top

#12 Yeah, but I'm betting that they got the stuff for good price. Got a bonus for it.

Posted by ed in texas 2023-10-05 13:56|| 2023-10-05 13:56|| Front Page Top

#13 Home of the Boeing 737Max?

Posted by Skidmark 2023-10-05 23:14|| 2023-10-05 23:14|| Front Page Top

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