My father has been designing and building bespoke aircraft for 45 years, was an FAA test pilot, inspector, and trainer for most of that time, and was in the US Air Force during the Korean War. He has more aviation experience than most.

His license plate reads GO RAIL and he won’t fly commercial if he can avoid it.

e: I am not surprised.

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.

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

Non-paywall link for anyone: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/escalating-scandal-grips-airlines-including-190553757.html

You wouldn't download a jet engine...

Fly by night industry indeed.

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

What I want to know is what that part was.

Boo, paywall. Anyone have a list of the affected airlines?

When we looked for the autopilot computer, we just found a small, tired indian man in a compartment

I am very glad my next international trip will by by train.

Oh cool wardogs 2: the enshittification with jonah hill should be dope

Well that is scary!

This is the best summary I could come up with:

It has had two consecutive summers plagued with seemingly constant flight delays and cancellations as “revenge travel” grips a worldwide public eager to get out after a pandemic-era hibernation.

Instead these parts “get sold cheaply to customers who need inexpensive replacements.” Black market dealings can be slightly more nefarious in nature, often entailing sale of military technology to countries that are under international sanctions, such as selling spare F-14 fighter jets to Iran.

In addition to allegedly forging documents for airplane parts it appears that AOG Technics created several fake LinkedIn profiles claiming to be company executives, according to Bloomberg.

Several of the filings are riddled with typos, including misspelled executive titles and oddly capitalized words that appear to have happened when someone hit caps lock instead of the “A” key.

Other documents show a series of shifting corporate addresses, some of which end up back at either a coworking space in London and the offices of a now-retired accountant in a sleepy West Sussex town.

A Certificate of Incorporation filed with the Registrar of Companies for England and Wales in January 2021 listed Kensho’s headquarters at the same London address of AOG Technics—the North Nova building just a few blocks from Buckingham Palace.

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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.

I bought my Technics Direct-drive turntable Model SL-Q20 in 1981 or 1982, still working like a champ.