Quality issues are one of the most problematic issues in our industry today. Typically you will get a bad part that doesn’t fit you new design Bell 429, EC225 or S-92 and that is it, you order a new one and hope it fits.
What is more insidious is when a process is missed, whatever the FAR revision your aircraft was certified under, the helicopter is at risk. All OEMs work extremely hard to have robust QA processes to prevent this from happening, but in this case good people died and I find it appalling that someone would use this to push a totally unrelated agenda.
Sad, really sad
