LONDON - Global airlines are having a time of it right now, with shortages of everything from ground workers and planes getting in the way of seamless service. Now, carriers operating certain Airbus and Boeing planes are racing to fix a new problem: fake engine parts. According to a new report from Bloomberg, airlines flying older-generation Airbus A320 and Boeing 737 planes might have been duped into fitting their engines with counterfeit parts. Now they’re all rushing to find the fake parts and replace them before anything bad happens, Owen Bellwood reports for Jalopnik. Continue reading original article.
The Military & Aerospace Electronics take:
8 September 2023 - Bloomberg and Jalopnik report that counterfeit parts were for the CFM56 jet engine, which powers older generation Boeing an Airbus aircraft. The counterfeits were sold with forged certification, according to the the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EUASA). The safety agency said the parts were supplied by AOG Technics in London. The company, Bloomberg reports, has not "provide[ed] detail on the actual origin of the questionable parts.”
“The documentation of parts is a very critical issue,” said Klaus Mueller, a senior adviser at AeroDynamic Advisory and a former senior executive at MTU Aero Engines AG and Deutsche Lufthansa AG’s maintenance arm. “The industry is taking this topic very, very seriously.”
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