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Escalating scandal grips airlines including American and Southwest, as nearly 100 planes find fake parts from company with fake employees that vanished overnight (fortune.com)
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Escalating scandal grips airlines including American and Southwest, as nearly 100 planes find fake parts from company with fake employees that vanished overnight::Why are so many flights getting canceled or delayed? Blame a mysterious British supplier accused of falsified documents for plane components.

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[โ€“] Etterra@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sir, we've discovered that these fuselages that we have been installing for the last 3 months are all made out of paper mache.

CEO: Shit we're going to get sued! Do anything else to tell me?

We opened up a black box and nothing was inside except for Three paper clips and a dead AA battery.

[โ€“] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Right, well, best shellac the paper mache and get going