Transportation
Fake Spare Parts Were Supplied to Fix Top-Selling Jet Engine
- Airlines, repair shops race to gauge issue on A320, 737 jets
- EASA warns of false documents, parts with unknown origin
Manufacturing partners General Electric and Safran have been assisting in the probe of allegedly faked certification documents and unapproved parts for CFM56 engines.
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European aviation regulators have determined that an obscure London-based company supplied bogus parts for repairs of jet engines that power many older-generation Airbus SE A320 and Boeing Co. 737 planes.
Manufacturing partners General Electric Co. and Safran SA have been assisting in the probe of allegedly faked certification documents and unapproved parts for CFM56 engines that were distributed by London-based AOG Technics Ltd., according to the companies, public regulatory filings and letters to operators viewed by Bloomberg.