Per Mafia ad Astra
The companies Panaviation and Meridiana in Italy, are being investigated by the Italian Police. Amongst other airlines, Panaviation had been delivering American Airlines with parts fraudulently declared as 'New'.
These companies had been selling stolen and secondhand parts with false part numbers, as new and also bribing companies with kick backs, to take their parts. One source of Airbus parts has been a group of used Alitalia aircraft in Rome.
The FBI is now involved in connection with the Queens case which also interests the Italian authorities, as does the crash of a Minerva Dornier 328 in 1999.
The news has been surfacing in middle Europe these last two days...