Word: repairable
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...said these were not safety issues. They were only unapproved parts. It was a label the FAA would rely on to blur the issue, allowing officials to talk about the investigation without appearing to endorse it or offend the repair stations, parts makers or brokers. The FAA wouldn't even use the term bogus parts. Administrator Hinson would tell Congress that "unapproved parts may fit somebody's definition of bogus parts, but we only deal in 'approved' and 'unapproved.'" Associate administrator Anthony Broderick would tell Air Transport World in 1994 that "there is no safety problem associated with undocumented parts...
Suddenly it was clear that bogus parts were out there in great numbers. One of the first steps had to be to determine the scope of the problem. We crafted a series of audits and went to repair stations to count their stock. One of those was the FAA's own Logistics Center, where the agency kept the parts inventory for its own fleet. I felt considerable satisfaction at finding that 39% of the FAA's own spare parts were suspect. Inevitably, this finding outraged the FAA--they argued with us, insisting that our audit of random samples could...
...studies of repair-station parts bins were mind boggling: 43% of the parts bought from manufacturers were bogus; a shocking 95% were fraudulent when they came from parts brokers. With brokers, the repair stations had very little chance of buying genuine parts. Again the FAA argued that the parts we found were authentic; they were just missing their labels...
...responsible for certifying and then continually examining aircraft design, airline operations, airplanes, pilots, mechanics, repair stations, aircraft parts--essentially every stage of commercial aviation. The agency does this with one basic tool: inspections. The nearly 3,000 FAA inspectors are the main link between the government and the airlines, and it is their job to make sure the carriers operate within the law. They are supposed to stay on top of the airlines, verifying that planes and pilots are in shape to fly. It's a hands-on job, one that pays from $40,000 to $70,000 a year...
...Before I did this research, I really thought that affairs were fatal for relationships, but they're not. It all depends on how you deal with it, and that's why I have two sections in the book on how to repair and rebuild and heal the hurts. You need all of that. But if the person who has been cheated on has a talent for forgiveness and the cheater is truly sorry - this is one of the surprising findings - many, many people are able to use the affair as a wake-up call and end up so much happier...