Escalating scandal grips airlines including American and Southwest, as nearly 100 planes find fake parts from company with fake employees that vanished overnight

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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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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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What I want to know is what that part was.

TurboEncabulator. The most precise component in the entire evolutionary aeroplane cycle. I would not want a counterfeit.

I shudder to think that a plane could have gotten off the ground with its turbo unencabulated. The horror.