Delta is fourth major U.S. airline to find fake jet aircraft engine parts with forged airworthiness documents from U.K. company::With forged airworthiness documents from U.K. company

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      Look on the bright side here. What we have is a case of parts with some forged documentation. It’s not like planes had bananas instead of spark plugs. We had a supplier forge some of the very rigorous documentation we require for plane parts. And they got caught. Later than we might have liked, but they weren’t found out because some plane crashed.

      Honestly, if you accept that there will always be some bad actors out there, this looks a lot like a system that’s working.

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      The UK? What else is corrupt there? Not very knowledgeable about it.

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        Petty corruption is pretty decently under control (you can’t bribe a police officer if they pull you over), but institutional corruption, politicians amd their buddies, that had a field day with COVID measures and is very much alive and kicking.

        See this example of “legal” affairs that stink of corruption. A lot of land was force-bought to make way for a new high-speed line to be laid. Huge overruns later, the line has been chopped short, it will no longer run across certain tracts of land. So a tonne of land that was appropriated from citizens is now going to be sold off. I feel sure the price on those sales will be below market value and it will be sold to their buddies.

        Or Nick Clegg, the former deputy Prime Minister who, when he left government, went into a veeery cushy job at Meta.

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          Wild man. I had no idea. As an outside person with casual interest, I don’t come across this kind of info much. I appreciate it.