https://www.rt.com/news/584206-airlines ... ine-scare/Major US airlines, including United, American, Southwest, and Delta, are scrambling to inspect their fleets and potentially ground planes after it emerged that a parts supplier for the most widely used commercial jet engine may have been committing widespread safety certification fraud, the Wall Street Journal has reported.
Fake safety cerificates
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Fake safety cerificates
“Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes.”
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Re: Fake safety cerificates
IIRC Qantas was the first to find the issue.
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Clear prop!
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Re: Fake safety cerificates
This problem hit the media about a month ago already, see here for the first topic on it...
Dirk de Vos
If you don't gear up your brain before takeoff, you'll probably gear up your airplane on landing.
If you don't gear up your brain before takeoff, you'll probably gear up your airplane on landing.