Comment on Escalating scandal grips airlines including American and Southwest, as nearly 100 planes find fake parts from company with fake employees that vanished overnight

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• elshanerino@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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• RunningInRVA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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    • Stumblinbear@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You’ve tracked them, but that doesn’t mean you’ve followed up at every second of every day to see if the company still exists.

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      • nucleative@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        This is the right answer. When we perform maintenance on our aircraft there’s a logbook entry that contains very specific details about the part that went in, such as it’s serial number, but really that’s so the insurance company can track down the culprit after the crash. Not many individuals are doing the tracing themselves.

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      • grayman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Nor did they ensure the credentials were legitimate, which is super hard if you’re not specifically looking for it and aware it’s occurring. Someone had insider knowledge and exploited a vulnerability.

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    • kaput@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• Wooki@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

  Or does it.

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  • JonEFive@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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…

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    • Wooki@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Risk impact comes in all forms from it did nothing to it destroyed our reputation to we killed people. Measuring risk impact and understanding the risks are very 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

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