LOADING ERROR LOADINGThe Federal Aviation Administration is investigating after a major manufacturer for Boeing and Airbus said some parts for commercial jets may have been fabricated using counterfeit titanium. Spirit told HuffPost it removed all of the potentially phony material from its inventory as soon as it learned of the issue. “All suspect parts were quarantined and removed from Spirit production,” Joe Buccino, Spirit’s spokesperson, told HuffPost in an emailed statement. Boeing told HuffPost the company directly sources its titanium for the vast majority of its production, and those supplies are not a part of the current investigation. “This industry-wide issue affects some shipments of titanium received by a limited set of suppliers, and tests performed to date have indicated that the correct titanium alloy was used,” a company spokesperson said.

Source: Huffington Post June 15, 2024 06:41 UTC