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by tankenmate 990 days ago
It's for this reason that Russian commercial airliner aircraft are now effectively worth 0 as the chain of certification of the planes and their parts are now broken. This may be a problem in the future as unscrupulous traders try to cert wash them back into the system in the future.
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Well it's handy for them that a decent chunk (400+) are stolen from international lessors, so they aren't taking a loss.
They won't be able to cert wash an airframe back into the system. They might be able to falsely certify the engines and other parts