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A scandal is unfurling in the aviation world. It involves a shadowy company, called AOG Technics. The aviation company sells counterfeit aircraft parts, is run by non-existent employees, and has a glorified P.O. box for an address.

Over the last 18 months post-pandemic "revenge travel" went global. And the airlines have experienced consecutive summers marred by frequent flight delays and cancellations.

 Despite successful negotiations of new pilot union contracts by American Airlines and United, the increasing problem of faulty parts now threatens to compound delays.

Regulators, airlines, and parts suppliers worldwide are in a frenzied race to trace potentially bogus components as the AOG Technics scandal spreads from the United States to Australia.

In early September Southwest Airlines initiated a wave of disclosures across the global aviation community when it revealed it had discovered unregistered parts supplied by AOG Technics.

American Airlines recently became the fourth and latest airline to uncover components from London-based AOG Technics, within its aircraft. 

According to American Airlines, they detected "uncertified components on a small number of aircraft." Southwest Airlines confirmed that one of their engines contained two parts linked to AOG Technics.

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About AOG Technics

AOG Technics, the UK-based broker accused of selling thousands of engine parts with falsified paperwork has been ordered to turn over records of its GE Aerospace-related transactions, a London court ordered. 

Aviation Week reported that the London High Court ruling, issued during a Sept. 20 hearing gives the company 14 days to hand over details on any CFM56 and CF6 parts it acquired and sold, along with relevant supporting documentation.

 The ruling came in response to a lawsuit filed Sept. 7 by CFM and its co-owners, GE Aerospace and Safran against AOG Technics and founder Jose Zamora Yrala. 

AOG Technics stands accused of fabricating documents and shipping suspect parts to airline maintenance shops across the globe. Firms like AOG serve as intermediaries supplying parts to independent firms contracted by airlines for aircraft repairs.

 The counterfeit parts in question were used to repair jet engines produced by CFM International, a partnership between GE and the French firm Safran. These parts are mostly used in older models of Airbus and Boeing aircraft engines.

CFM sues AOG

CFM International has initiated legal action against AOG Technics in London's High Court to access documentation that could unveil the scale of the fraud, facilitating the tracking of counterfeit parts. Thus far, CFM believes that AOG Technics may have distributed thousands of parts with fraudulent documentation.