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Suit claims GE shipped defective engine parts
A former employee of GE Aircraft Engines claims the company knowingly shipped defective parts built during a 10-year period at its factory in Madisonville,

A former employee of GE Aircraft Engines claims the company knowingly shipped defective parts built during a 10-year period at its factory in Madisonville, Ky. The charges came to light in a $64.4 million “whisteblower” lawsuit filed by former quality-control engineer Terri Brown, unsealed in late November at the request of the Courier-Journal of Louisville.

The suit, filed in 2002 by the federal government on behalf of Brown, charges that from 1991 to 2001 the Madisonville plant shipped defective turbine blades for various GE engines, including the CF34 turbofan–used in the Embraer 170/190 series and Bombardier Challenger and CRJ.