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On a Saturday morning in May, 2020, Italian police officers caught two men pouring chemical waste into the sewers in the southern port city of Brindisi, near a small plane components factory.

Five years on, that routine pollution case has spiralled into a wide-ranging judicial investigation into how thousands of flawed titanium and aluminium parts manufactured in Italy ended up in nearly 500 Boeing 787 jets still in use.

The probe focuses on how tiny aero-part-maker Manufacturing Process Specification (MPS) allegedly defrauded clients by using cheaper and weaker metals to make floor fittings and other plane parts. Company executives deny the charge.

But the precarious chain of events that led detectives to the alleged scam, including the surprise pollution find, raises broader questions about the failure by the aerospace industry's own voluntary audit system to detect sub-standard components.

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It’s because the voluntary/self audit shit is largely meaningless bullshit. And it’s gonna get a whole lot worse soon.

[–] BenM2023@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

If it is Boeing, I ain't going!

[–] venusaur@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

“industry’s own voluntary audit system”

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Still the safest way to travel... Just a little less safe!

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

For a few seconds, some of those planes had all their parts flying under the radar.

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Probably the emergency exit door too.