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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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[–] Gsus4@feddit.nl 73 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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

[–] elshanerino@lemmy.world 112 points 2 years ago

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

[–] RunningInRVA@lemmy.world 63 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] kaput@jlai.lu 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Wooki@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

Or does it.

[–] JonEFive@midwest.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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 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