<story><title>Delta finds fake jet aircraft engine parts with forged airworthiness documents</title><url>https://fortune.com/2023/10/03/delta-fourth-major-us-airline-fake-jet-aircraft-engine-parts-forged-airworthiness-documents-uk-company-aog/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DoingIsLearning</author><text>Is it though?&lt;p&gt;I never understood Mechanical and Electronic parts counterfeits. The amount of effort to create a forgery of a Louis Vuitton bag seems to have so much less effort&amp;#x2F;payoff ratio than create a fake IC or create parts with low grade steel.&lt;p&gt;Specially considering that you are risking lives and will most likely be chased for liability versus a fake handbag or whatever other luxury item.&lt;p&gt;As another example, the amount of scalpers (due to electronics parts shortage) trying to sell fake ICs to suppliers of medical devices is very scary.</text></item><item><author>s17tnet</author><text>Anecdtoal, my retired relative worked in civil avio jet engine industry and they got reports like that since mid-00.&lt;p&gt;Probably it is more common.&lt;p&gt;Highly regulated, certificated sector where a single bolt can be dozen time expansive &amp;quot;just&amp;quot; for a FAA approval is an honey jar.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NamTaf</author><text>‘Fake’ in this instance isn’t manufacturer B illegitimately cloning manufacturer A’s parts. It’s basically a failure of QA&amp;#x2F;QC processes being papered over.&lt;p&gt;The computing equivalent would be where how CPUs which fail QA are binned to lower spec (e.g. using 6 cores not 8, or underclocked), except in this instance it’s then still sold as the top-end chip even if it’s unstable and crashes under load sometimes.</text></comment>
<story><title>Delta finds fake jet aircraft engine parts with forged airworthiness documents</title><url>https://fortune.com/2023/10/03/delta-fourth-major-us-airline-fake-jet-aircraft-engine-parts-forged-airworthiness-documents-uk-company-aog/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DoingIsLearning</author><text>Is it though?&lt;p&gt;I never understood Mechanical and Electronic parts counterfeits. The amount of effort to create a forgery of a Louis Vuitton bag seems to have so much less effort&amp;#x2F;payoff ratio than create a fake IC or create parts with low grade steel.&lt;p&gt;Specially considering that you are risking lives and will most likely be chased for liability versus a fake handbag or whatever other luxury item.&lt;p&gt;As another example, the amount of scalpers (due to electronics parts shortage) trying to sell fake ICs to suppliers of medical devices is very scary.</text></item><item><author>s17tnet</author><text>Anecdtoal, my retired relative worked in civil avio jet engine industry and they got reports like that since mid-00.&lt;p&gt;Probably it is more common.&lt;p&gt;Highly regulated, certificated sector where a single bolt can be dozen time expansive &amp;quot;just&amp;quot; for a FAA approval is an honey jar.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>KeplerBoy</author><text>Just think of russian aviation. They&amp;#x27;re effectively banned from buying spare parts directly from the manufacturers and they don&amp;#x27;t care about certificates as much as they are banned from flying to western nations anyways.&lt;p&gt;They&amp;#x27;re probably building or unknowingly ordering counterfeit parts and naturally those parts pop up elsewhere.</text></comment>