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

• 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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      • RunningInRVA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I think there is trust in the system because the part came with all the necessary paperwork and everything checks out. In this case the shady parts company was forging certification documents from other manufacturers. That’s going to be hard to catch no matter how effective the system is.

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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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