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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)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What I want to know is what that part was.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

TurboEncabulator. The most precise component in the entire evolutionary aeroplane cycle. I would not want a counterfeit.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

I shudder to think that a plane could have gotten off the ground with its turbo unencabulated. The horror.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's old tech. The HyperEncabulator is where it's at.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Since nobody have a serious reply, two parts are mentioned in the article, a turbine blade and a turbine nozzle.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Oh, nothing important then

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Rooting for beverage cart panel.