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-Lurid Crime Tales-
America's biggest airlines ground planes as they launch desperate search for THOUSANDS of jet engine parts sold with fake safety certificates
2023-10-05
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Prob won't see impact on .MIL aircraft
  • At least 126 engines across a number of airlines were found to include parts from a jet supplier company under investigation

  • AOG Technics, a middleman in the aviation industry, is accused of mass-producing fake safety certificates

  • Fears are mounting over the aviation industry's safety oversight measures amid the scandal

  • AOG Technics has also faced allegations it faked employees and was using stock photographs for fictitious staffers on LinkedIn
    "Your girlfriend? Isn't that Morgan Fairchild?"
    "Yeaaaahhh. That's the ticket!"
  • The most affected engine model was found to be a CFM56, which alarmingly holds the record for most engines ever sold to airlines at over 33,900.

  • In the UK, where the company lists it address, a judge this week ordered the company to turn over its parts sales documents, and the full extent of the scandal could grow as the records are assessed


Posted by:Skidmark

#13  Home of the Boeing 737Max?
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-10-05 23:14  

#12  Yeah, but I'm betting that they got the stuff for good price. Got a bonus for it.
Posted by: ed in texas   2023-10-05 13:56  

#11  Let me guess.

Anyone who has flown more than four times will be grounded from further flights until this investigation concludes.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2023-10-05 13:54  

#10  Some company made the mistake of manufacturing their parts in China thinking that they could safeguard their IP. It must have been a giveaway when it was found that all the employees graduated from Bishop Sycamore.
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-10-05 12:58  

#9  Ref #2 and Frank G. "A representative for the building that leases the spaces told the outlet that AOG Technics was a virtual client and did not hold a space in the location."

The airlines need to scour out their legal departments as well as the purchasing staff. They literally had purchase contracts costing millions of dollars from a company that had no actual physical location and no one noticed? Another proof that our current generation of business elites are naive children!
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2023-10-05 12:33  

#8  What's interesting is, the ISO certifications that this is about dodging (tracability), was foisted on the US by EU because the US didn't have to pay to assimilate the east european countries.
(The EU had to spend a lot on checking and certifying east europe manufacturers, and so decided to force the procedure on the US to kill any price advantage. This created the "ISO" regime that you see on banners everywhere.)
Prior to that, individual companies checked up on suppliers on their own.
People in the audience, raise your hands if you remember 'inspection audits'.
Posted by: ed in texas   2023-10-05 11:24  

#7  EARLIER 9/1/23
Supplier Caught Distributing Fake Parts for World’s Top-Selling Jet Engine

9/20/23
AOG Technics Ordered To Provide Details Of Engine Parts Transactions
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-10-05 10:12  

#6  Does the BCF have commercial aviation interests ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2023-10-05 10:01  

#5  JSTARS Flies Its Last Operational Mission Ahead of November Retirement
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-10-05 09:27  

#4  /\ From the comments section, emphasis added:

@UncleKennysPlace
8 days ago
I do certification work for CFM. The tracking is monumental. But it wouldn't be impossible for someone to fake an entire paper trail, which happened here. It's absolutely, positively a criminal organization doing this, and someone knew how to do it.
Posted by: Besoeker   2023-10-05 09:19  

#3  Steve Lehto had a video on this a few days ago.

Posted by: Mullah Richard OTR   2023-10-05 09:04  

#2  ^ Possibly.
The WSJ reported that it visited the company's listed address in London, near Buckingham Palace, where reception and security staff said they had not heard of the company.

A representative for the building that leases the spaces told the outlet that AOG Technics was a virtual client and did not hold a space in the location.
Posted by: Frank G   2023-10-05 07:33  

#1  Parts Made in China were they ?

Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Besoeker   2023-10-05 07:26  

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