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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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[-] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago

The FRA (federal railway administration) is scary. I would trust a train for sure.

[-] llama@midwest.social 18 points 10 months ago

Wasn't everybody saying the opposite like 3 months ago?

[-] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 18 points 10 months ago

The regulation on passenger rail is MUCH stronger then on freight.

[-] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

That’s freight rail. Freight rail is a full blown late-stage capitalist hellscape. Aging infrastructure that hasn’t seen maintenance since the New Deal, companies that refuse to update equipment because paying out lawsuits when it breaks is cheaper, overworked employees who aren’t even allowed to call out sick, etc…

Compared to that, passenger rail is a fucking pipedream.

[-] llama@midwest.social 1 points 10 months ago

But doesn't Amtrak share the same rails with freight? Sure maybe the trains themselves are better maintained but if the rails themselves are in bad shape the train won't get far.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 6 points 10 months ago

Well I guess it's not mechanic failures of the train that derails them.

[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Perhaps, but you don’t have as far to fall.

(e: oh, I mistook your comment for sarcasm. Ignore my reply; I agree.)

[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.one 4 points 10 months ago

Ergo, less time to contemplate your last moments. I like it.

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