The AOG Technics fraud showed that shallow certificate checks are a safety gap, and that cross referencing every release document at receiving is how the one that does not add up gets caught.
More than 60,000 parts with forged release certificates entered the aviation supply chain between 2019 and 2023, and one engineer's doubt ended it. We explain why review depth, not more paperwork, is the fix.
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