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, the Federal Aviation Administration is probing claims from Spirit Aerosystems, one of the aerospace industry's key component suppliers, which found that a company contracted by both firms had sold them titanium parts with forged verification documents.
It appears, per insiders who spoke to the newspaper on condition of anonymity, that an employee at the Chinese firm forged details on the certificates to claim it had been sold by Baoji Titanium Industry, a company that sells authentic titanium. Baoji later confirmed to thescrutiny at Boeing"Boeing reported a voluntary disclosure to regarding procurement of material through a distributor who may have falsified or provided incorrect records," an agency statement provided to thereads.
"Numerous tests have been performed on parts coming from the same source of supply," an Airbus spokesperson said. "Our quality management process relies on the traceability of the raw materials all the way from the mills," said Gregg Brown, Spirit's senior vice president for global quality. "There has been a loss of traceability in that process and a documentation challenge."
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