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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 (fortune.com)
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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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[–] jimbolauski@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It would not take much for a boiler on a train to blow, I'm sure there were all sorts of corners cut.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do Diesel engines even use boilers? I know electric ones don't. You don't see a whole lot of functioning steam engines these days. They are neat though. Noisy AF.

[–] jimbolauski@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I thought you were talking back in the day when you referenced railroad engineers talking to op's father. Ie even way back when the people that ran old steam locomotives had the same opinion.

Funny enough my FIL was a train engineer for steam engines but transitioned to maintaining boilers at a hospital as most steam engines were being phased out early in his career.