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Could Russia be behind this? Stealing parts for their fleet and switching them for fakes with forged documents for the west?
by Almondsetat 3y ago
Could Russia be behind this? Stealing parts for their fleet and switching them for fakes with forged documents for the west?
- shwaj 3y agoI think it’s probably North Korea. Or maybe Antarctica. Seriously though, why Russia?
- ivan_gammel 3y agoNot impossible, but I’d rather vote for those parts being manufactured in China and the operations being run by some criminal syndicate. There’s a lot of work to make those parts look like originals and it is not a one year project, so it is unlikely that sanctions caused it. UPD: thinking again, there’s a large supplier in Russia who lost contracts with Boeing and other customers after the war started. They should have some specs and established manufacturing processes. But it will be trivial to establish the link if it were them. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VSMPO-AVISMA https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VSMPO-AVISMA
- colechristensen 3y agoOrdinary greed and sloppiness are much more likely. You don’t need conspiracy when you have greed and irresponsibility.
- Almondsetat 3y agoSo the fact that Russia is under sanctions and cannot legally get spare parts for its fleet is a conspiracy now?
- colechristensen 3y agoUh, no. The part where sanctions led Russia to somehow infiltrate suppliers and replace real parts with counterfeits for some reason is the conspiracy. Also nobody would even think of doing that to evade sanctions. You just trade through a series of shady third parties in unsanctioned countries.
- EdwardDiego 3y agoFrom my reading, there's an entire dubious parts industry largely centred in Florida.
- DoingIsLearning 3y agoI remember watching a '60 min' episode on CBS about Avionics parts counterfeits some 20 years ago. Counterfeits and low grade steel fake parts have been a thing in aviation for a very long time. It has always been up to QA and regulatory to keep you and I safe. No point in thinking of this as part of some subversive war, greed is more than enough to explain it.
- Almondsetat 3y agoWho talked about subversive war?
- ahoka 3y agoRussia would gladly buy the fake parts and say they are manufacturing it themselves!
- Zigurd 3y agoRussia has done a lot of stupid dangerous things, some of which are underreported, but wow that's some wildass speculation there. I would not be too surprised if, say, makers of fake parts are selling to Russia. But Russia has no incentive to make that process more complicated. Even if they got certified parts, the repair schedule on all their planes is so far off requirements and uncertified that their planes will never fly international again.