Fake components went into 68 jet engines, including ones on Boeing 737 and Airbus A320 planes, says lawsuit::Airlines, regulators, and others are scouring their records to hunt down suspect components sold by AOG.
Fake components went into 68 jet engines, including ones on Boeing 737 and Airbus A320 planes, says lawsuit::Airlines, regulators, and others are scouring their records to hunt down suspect components sold by AOG.
That’s a huge problem.
That’s up to 68 affected jets. The engines are maybe $7m a pop. $467m of jet engines that need to be replaced. There are 1276 737-Max and 2939 A320neo jets produced.
Until they find the planes these were installed on, those planes are at risk of failure
It won’t be hard to find the planes these parts are associated with. Aerospace is hardcore about traceability. It’s not like people flying need to be worrying about the plane they are on.
Unless they’re being operated by Russian carriers 😬
They should not need to replace the entire engine, unless they are shop-level components. The airlines will have records for each part, and they should be able to narrow down what engines received specific parts from that manufacturer.
— 737 Max at risk of failure …again.
These are not the 737 Max. Per the article, these are older model planes.
Not again. Still.