A key piece in the suspect’s plane

When last Monday the auto parts company SAS received at its Pacheco plant the essential parts for TAOS seats Volkswagen produces at the rate of 200 a day, no one imagined at that moment that they had arrived in the mysterious flight of an airplane with Iranian and Venezuelan crew.

SAS is a french company, part of the Fauresia group, a global automobile supplier based in Nanterre, in the western suburbs of Paris. It is none other than 9th international manufacturer of auto parts in the world.

The truth is that in its factories in Queretaro, Mexico, it produces a part for car seats, in this case the TAOS model and also instruments for the control panels of such vehicles.

With those parts and in what globalization symbolizes, SAS complete the assembly of the seats and panels at its plant on Henry Ford Avenue in Pacheco, strategically located near the Volkswagen plant and Ford itself.

those parts they always traveled by ship but the pandemic first and the war in Ukraine later are complicating the logistics in such a way that many are now taken on cargo flights.

Here’s how things stand, SAS hired a customs agent in charge of obtaining the flights and that the cargo arrives at its destination on time. This is no small detail. Car manufacturers work with the Japanese concept of just in time with a low stock level and if the parts fail paralyzes the production line. Volkswagen makes ones 200 TAOS per day in Pacheco. On Wednesday, the seats were ready at its Pacheco plant.

The client chosen by SAS is the company Fracht, an international company expert in these matters. Both Volkswagen and SAS have disassociated themselves from this flight. They both indicated Frachtcompany that, despite the insistent phone calls, has not yet given any explanation.