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 |  Subject: Pratt: Fraudulent Engine-Testing Scheme Uncovered In 2011  Wed Mar 06, 2013 1:54 pm | |
| Pratt & Whitney discovered nearly two years ago that one of its foreign business units had fraudulently adjusted test results on tens of thousands of engine parts to bypass additional inspection, the company said Monday. Both Pratt and the federal government concluded in separate investigations that the safety of the parts was not compromised. The unit, Carmel Forge Ltd. in Israel, changed test results for more than 40,000 forged disks over 15 years, Pratt said. In jet engines, the disks serve as hubs to which compressor and turbine blades are attached. According to an internal company memo obtained by The Courant, Pratt launched an internal investigation in June 2011 after an employee tipped off the company to the problem. http://www.courant.com/business/hc-utc-pratt-and-whitney-testing-scheme-20130304,0,3311317.story | |
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