Escalating scandal grips airlines including American and Southwest, wreaking havoc on flight delays as nearly 100 planes find fake parts from company that vanished overnight
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The mysterious London-based AOG Technics is accused of falsifying paperwork for plane parts that ended up being sold around the world.

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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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.

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

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I bought my Technics Direct-drive turntable Model SL-Q20 in 1981 or 1982, still working like a champ.

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Did, back in the day. I’d put on my Pink Floyd “Dark Side of the Moon” and we’d get real high.

Now boarding Liquid Sky Direct airlines.

Gate 25.

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this is occuring in other industries as well to the point of affecting a lot of stuff surprised there is not more articles pertaining to this

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But. “flying the safest mode of transport”

And people wonder why I hate flying.

Fly by night industry indeed.

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Well that is scary!

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Just flew southwest twice last week… cool cool cool cool.

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When we looked for the autopilot computer, we just found a small, tired indian man in a compartment

indian Turkish

Turkish Airline now have different meaning

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*Automan

Otto pilot

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