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United Airlines Becomes Third Airline with Fake Engine Parts
United Airlines has become the latest airline to have sketchy engine parts in its aircraft. On September 18, Bloomberg reported that UK-based supplier AOG Technics provided fake engine parts to the airline. United is not the only carrier with this issue: Virgin Australia and Southwest Airlines also received counterfeit parts from AOG Technics. (aeroxplorer.com) More...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
If the parts weren't important, they probably wouldn't put them in the engine. There are plenty of critical parts squeezed into and engine without adding the cost, weight and design effort to put unimportant parts in.
Wasn’t it a ten cent part that caused the fire in the capsule of Apollo One that killed the three astronauts?
That, and pumping the thing full of 100% oxygen under pressure.
Same thing happened to the Russians, although the rest of the world didn’t know it until much later. Cosmonaut barely survived initially, only place to put a intravenous needle were the soles of his feet. Didn’t last much longer after that.
Changing Contractors didn’t help matters. McDonnell had pretty much perfected guidelines w/the Mercury & Gemini programs. North American won the Apollo portion, & ignored McDonnell’s procedures & production QC going their own way.
https://www.stlmag.com/Losing-The-Moon/
https://www.stlmag.com/Losing-The-Moon/
One small malfunction is enough to create a major incident or safety issue."
Two antithetical claims separated by just a couple of sentences. Not impressed with the writing/editing. Anyone familiar with that old saying, "For lack of a nail..." will know which claim I subscribe to.