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Via #Reuters @ 2:29am ET on Mar 13, 2025

On a Saturday morning in May, 2020, #Italian police officers caught two men pouring chemical waste into the sewers in the southern port city of #Brindisi, near a small plane components factory

Five years on, that routine #pollution case has spiralled into a wide-ranging judicial investigation into how thousands of flawed #titanium and #aluminium parts manufactured in #Italy ended up in nearly 500 #Boeing787 jets still in use.

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/how-faulty-parts-boeings-787-jets-flew-below-radar-italy-2025-03-13/