One of the 2 SpaceX falcon 9 failures, CRS-7, was caused by the manufacturer claiming a strut (metal pole) was rated to N lbs but in reality its failure point was N/2.
SpaceX sourced the material from an industrial supply company, not an aerospace company, and that company’s material testing procedures were less strict. During launch the strut failed and caused a “rapid unscheduled disassembly”. Or, as I like to say, an sad boom.
It’s a little different than what’s going on with these aircraft but it’s similar. These companies really need to test the stuff they buy because your supply chain
Yeah I have a hard time believing that only less than 1% of their fleet is effected. They are being dodgey as fuck about it. Also any airline would jump at the chance for cheaper parts and these counterfeit parts were probably cheaper than legit parts.
Yes, but wouldn’t the sanctioned countries be similar? It seems to me it was likely a scam to save many where they sold non genuine parts and pretended they were genuine, but evading sanctions doesn’t make sense.
Much smaller installed base, much less money for the scammers to make.
From the article, just Delta airlines has 2,100 engines in service.
The two planes I know that have been affected by this are the A320 and the 737. Both models have had more that 11,000 built each. So at lease 22,000 planes. (44,000 engines)
By comparison the G650/G700/G800 series (EM's private jet) has a total of... 512.
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