[neilv]

> Spirit is trying to determine where the titanium came from, whether it meets proper standards despite its phony documentation, and whether the parts made from the material are structurally sound enough to hold up through the projected life spans of the jets, company officials said. Spirit said it was trying to determine the most efficient way to remove and replace the affected parts if that ended up being necessary.

Why are they even considering keeping the counterfeit parts in?

Is the situation that Spirit AeroSystems believes the eventual answer will be that the aircraft can't be used with known-counterfeit parts, but they're dancing around liability or PR, or they don't want to grandstand upon their customers' toes?

[tim333]

It's not exactly counterfeit parts. It's that the paperwork for the titanium supplied wasn't right. So I guess it could be ok titanium with just bad paperwork rather than bad titanium. Also I guess it costs a lot to change.

[neilv]

IIUC, the paperwork is a major part of the part.

[rpmisms]

Yes, but if the paperwork is good, you don't have to replace a ton of parts, so investigating that first seems prudent.

[codedokode]

If the material was good, they would not need to make fake documents, right? Either it is low quality, or it is high quality, but from Russia.