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Fake spare parts were supplied to fix top-selling jet engines

Workers carry out maintenance on a turbofan engine, manufactured by Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc, on a grounded passenger aircraft operated by Azul SA at Chateauroux airport in Chateauroux, France, on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020. The single-runway airport located in France's flat, central basin has turned away airlines seeking to store more planes - a sign the global aviation slump is deeply set despite some easing of travel restrictions. Bloomberg photo by Nathan Laine
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Julie Johnsson, Ryan Beene & Siddharth Philip

European aviation regulators have determined that an obscure London-based company supplied bogus parts for repairs of jet engines that power many older-generation Airbus A320 and Boeing 737 planes.

Manufacturing partners General Electric and Safran have been assisting in the probe of allegedly faked certification documents and unapproved parts for CFM56…