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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: WLJ on October 05, 2023, 10:23:39 AM
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The aviation industry has been rocked by reports thousands of jet-engine parts with fraudulent safety certificates have been installed onto passenger planes.
Major airlines including American Airlines, United Airlines and Southwest Airlines have pulled jets from their fleets as investigations into the potentially catastrophic faults are ongoing.
The scandal has zeroed in on a dubious airplane parts supplier named AOG Technics, which allegedly mass-produced fake safety certificates in order to sell its engine parts to airlines.
AOG Technics has also faced allegations it faked employees and was using stock photographs for fictitious staffers on LinkedIn, according to Bloomberg. Attempts to contact the company were unsuccessful.
With parts from the problematic company so far found in 126 engines across several airlines, questions are being raised over the effectiveness of the aviation industry's safety oversight measures.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the company serves as a middleman in the aviation industry by acquiring parts before selling them to maintenance and repair shops.
And to really give you a warm and fuzzy feeling
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.
But nowhere in the article do they say where the parts were actually coming from but I have a guess.
America's biggest airlines ground planes as they launch desperate search for THOUSANDS of jet engine parts sold with fake safety certificates
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12595495/airlines-ground-planes-engine-parts-fake-safety-certificates.html
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So were the parts legitimately manufactured, but lacked the QA/QC and testing to verify quality? I do not know what the standards are for those parts.
I assume so since they obviously have worked in service for at least some period of time.
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So were the parts legitimately manufactured, but lacked the QA/QC and testing to verify quality? I do not know what the standards are for those parts.
I assume so since they obviously have worked in service for at least some period of time.
There is speculation that some of the parts were seconds (rejects that failed inspection and should have been destroyed), and others were used parts that had been removed from engines and replaced during overhauls.
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A fictitious address in London as a "virtual client"? :O
Sounds like the people running this operation went to some lengths to obscure their identities. Wonder how much "forensic accounting" it will take to track them down.
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The LinkedIn page for all their executives are fake with stock photos too. Pretty funny.
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Update
Founder of company which 'supplied jet engine parts with falsified safety paperwork' is arrested by fraud cops in Britain over scandal which forced airlines in US and around the globe to ground at least 126 passenger planes
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12837757/AOG-Technics-founder-arrested-fraud-fake-aircraft-parts.html
Before joining the aviation industry in around 2010, Yrala was a budding techno DJ and music producer who performed under the name Santa Militia.
A profile on the artist website Resident Advisor says Yrala started playing techno events in Caracas, Venezuela's capital, in 2005 before relocating to Europe in 2010 and performing in countries including Spain, Italy and the UK.
AOG Technics, which he founded in the UK in 2015, allegedly supplied thousands of parts with false paperwork to companies which airlines use for aircraft maintenance.
AOG Technics is also believed to have invented employees with fake profiles to boost its image and also rented a virtual 'ghost' office near Buckingham Palace to give it an exclusive address.
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The profound level of hubris and stupidity that must exist in people like that to make them believe they will get away with that type of fuckery is stupefying.
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This scheme is so vast and ballsey it makes you wonder if whole planes can be fake. Who knows how many Bowing or Repubic or Aerbuss planes are actually flying? With counterfeit Airwerthiness Certificaits.
I would have said "pretty impossible" before this... now it's "pretty improbable."
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Just wait till the DIE initiative gets fully spooled up. Mechanical failures will be the least of our airborne worries.
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We have a counterfeit parts program in the Air Force to catch things like that. Is it effective? most of the time….