Counterfeit Part Story

 

I sat and pondered over this story today.  Both major airline companies in the world....both fooled in some way with fake titanium-looking metal sold to them for parts.

Problems?

You would have to go and look at every single plane made....test each part, and if fake....replace.

I would imagine purely from an audit experience....you'd be talking about three years from beginning to end.

I sat in a briefing within the Pentagon back  in the 2012 era....where they talked about fake Chinese-made components were being found in US-made desktop/laptop computers.  It could be a $100 graphics board....that sold as a fake copy for $25.  The middle guy?  Taking the $75 profit.  This guy would buy a thousand copies, and slip them into the manufacturing process.

If any of these Airbus or Boeing planes fail and the fake parts are identified as the cause?  Well....the court business would get into the billions.

But why stop there?  It's the same way with brake pads.....you could take the Ford F150 over to a garage....have the genuine pads installed....to grasp six weeks later, they failed because they were crappy Chinese-copies.

The AC unit you have in the house?  It might have five or six components which are not Japanese-made  as you thought....but cheap Chinese-copies.

It should worry people.