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.
I remember watching an American 60 Minutes episode about commercial airlines buying fake plane parts, maybe 20+ years ago. Depressing to see it still happens.
Non-paywall link for anyone: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/escalating-scandal-grips-airlines-including-190553757.html
this is occuring in other industries as well to the point of affecting a lot of stuff surprised there is not more articles pertaining to this
Right to repair your tractor? Hell no!
Fake ass parts with MTBF of a few hundred hours installed by the dealer? Yeah that’s cool!
Thanks regulatory capture and corrupt govt!!!
Fly by night industry indeed.
Oh cool wardogs 2: the enshittification with jonah hill should be dope
When we looked for the autopilot computer, we just found a small, tired indian man in a compartment
indianTurkish*Automan
Underrated comment…
Otto pilot
Turkish Airline now have different meaning
Sir, we’ve discovered that these fuselages that we have been installing for the last 3 months are all made out of paper mache.
CEO: Shit we’re going to get sued! Do anything else to tell me?
We opened up a black box and nothing was inside except for Three paper clips and a dead AA battery.
Right, well, best shellac the paper mache and get going
I bought my Technics Direct-drive turntable Model SL-Q20 in 1981 or 1982, still working like a champ.
Can you fly on it?
Did, back in the day. I’d put on my Pink Floyd “Dark Side of the Moon” and we’d get real high.
Now boarding Liquid Sky Direct airlines.
Gate 25.
Flying southwest 3 times in November, wish me luck fellas
May the odds be ever in your favour
May the odds be ever in your favor.
May the sod never be in your collar
Something like that I’m not good at this
Well that is scary!
Just flew southwest twice last week… cool cool cool cool.
But. “flying the safest mode of transport”
And people wonder why I hate flying.
