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Is the above real or hearsay? I think it is more hearsay because if many AAIB reports were anything to go by, many maintenance shops in the UK would have been shut down yet clearly this has not happened. Almost none (none?) have ever been shut down by the CAA, and the UK prop shop I mentioned got busted by the FAA, IIRC.
From my experience it's real. Of course it's not the job of the AAIB to shut down maintenance organisations; it's that of the CAA. The CAA & AAIB are independent organisations but no doubt if the problem was significant there would some communication between them. I was just making the point in context of why or why not it may be acceptable to apply reason to allowing components to run on pass their shelf life etc..in the Continuing Airworthiness Environment.