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Airplane Literally Held Together With 'Duct Tape'?
Airplane Literally Held Together With 'Duct Tape'?
by Caroline Morse, SmarterTravel Staff - October 24, 2011 at 3:22 PM Has notoriously cheap airline Ryanair resorted to fixing its planes with tape and a prayer? The Telegraph reported Monday that a Ryanair flight from Britain's Stansted airport to Riga, Latvia, had to turn back after about 20 minutes because the tape securing the cockpit's windscreen had come loose. Yes, you read that right. The tape holding together the cockpit window. No word yet whether MacGyver was on the scene as well. Nervous fliers looking outside their windows before takeoff were probably not comforted to see the ground crew using what appeared to be "duct tape or gaffer tape" to secure the edges of the window. Said one passenger in The Sun, "We were in the sky, then the pilot said due to damage on the windscreen, we were going to have to turn back." In fairness, The Sun also reported that The Irish Aviation Authority said a new window seal was being secured with tape as a precaution, and that they had completed their investigation into the incident. If Ryanair is going to scare their passengers like this, they may have to reconsider their plan to remove almost all of the bathrooms on their planes. Those extra lavatories may be needed after all. What do you think? Did Ryanair value cost and time savings over passenger safety, or would you feel comfortable flying in a plane literally held together by tape—for any reason? http://www.smartertravel.com/airfare...duct-tape.html |
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Airplane Literally Held Together With 'Duct Tape'?
On 26/10/11 06:38, Ablang wrote:
Airplane Literally Held Together With 'Duct Tape'? by Caroline Morse, SmarterTravel Staff - October 24, 2011 at 3:22 PM Has notoriously cheap airline Ryanair resorted to fixing its planes with tape and a prayer? The Telegraph reported Monday that a Ryanair flight from Britain's Stansted airport to Riga, Latvia, had to turn back after about 20 minutes because the tape securing the cockpit's windscreen had come loose. Yes, you read that right. The tape holding together the cockpit window. No word yet whether MacGyver was on the scene as well. Nervous fliers looking outside their windows before takeoff were probably not comforted to see the ground crew using what appeared to be "duct tape or gaffer tape" to secure the edges of the window. Said one passenger in The Sun, "We were in the sky, then the pilot said due to damage on the windscreen, we were going to have to turn back." In fairness, The Sun also reported that The Irish Aviation Authority said a new window seal was being secured with tape as a precaution, and that they had completed their investigation into the incident. If Ryanair is going to scare their passengers like this, they may have to reconsider their plan to remove almost all of the bathrooms on their planes. Those extra lavatories may be needed after all. What do you think? Did Ryanair value cost and time savings over passenger safety, or would you feel comfortable flying in a plane literally held together by tape—for any reason? http://www.smartertravel.com/airfare...duct-tape.html Airworthiness is not in the gift of airline managers but of qualified engineers who certify that the aircraft is fit to fly. Even a Ryanair engineer isn't going to certify a aircraft as fit to fly if it isn't. -- William Black Free men have open minds If you want loyalty, buy a dog... |
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Airplane Literally Held Together With 'Duct Tape'?
Ablang wrote:
Airplane Literally Held Together With 'Duct Tape'? by Caroline Morse, SmarterTravel Staff - October 24, 2011 at 3:22 PM Has notoriously cheap airline Ryanair resorted to fixing its planes with tape and a prayer? The Telegraph reported Monday that a Ryanair flight from Britain's Stansted airport to Riga, Latvia, had to turn back after about 20 minutes because the tape securing the cockpit's windscreen had come loose. Yes, you read that right. The tape holding together the cockpit window. No word yet whether MacGyver was on the scene as well. Nervous fliers looking outside their windows before takeoff were probably not comforted to see the ground crew using what appeared to be "duct tape or gaffer tape" to secure the edges of the window. Said one passenger in The Sun, "We were in the sky, then the pilot said due to damage on the windscreen, we were going to have to turn back." In fairness, The Sun also reported that The Irish Aviation Authority said a new window seal was being secured with tape as a precaution, and that they had completed their investigation into the incident. If Ryanair is going to scare their passengers like this, they may have to reconsider their plan to remove almost all of the bathrooms on their planes. Those extra lavatories may be needed after all. What do you think? Did Ryanair value cost and time savings over passenger safety, or would you feel comfortable flying in a plane literally held together by tape—for any reason? http://www.smartertravel.com/airfare...eld-together-w ith-duct-tape.html A classic result of lazy journalism. The tape is covering up sealer to protect it from the weather while it cures. The sealer is applied around the window to smoothe out the surface after the window has been replaced. It is a standard Boeing maintenance procedure, and it is not "holding together the cockpit window". What absolute crap the media can present as fact. Do they do absolutely no research at all? If they write such garbage in subjects you know something about, then how can you take them seriously in areas that you don't know as well? .. and this is supposedly a travel writer who should know where to contact a reliable source for a check. |
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Airplane Literally Held Together With 'Duct Tape'?
Stoopid article and stoopid post.
"Ablang" a écrit dans le message de groupe de discussion : ... Airplane Literally Held Together With 'Duct Tape'? by Caroline Morse, SmarterTravel Staff - October 24, 2011 at 3:22 PM Has notoriously cheap airline Ryanair resorted to fixing its planes with tape and a prayer? The Telegraph reported Monday that a Ryanair flight from Britain's Stansted airport to Riga, Latvia, had to turn back after about 20 minutes because the tape securing the cockpit's windscreen had come loose. Yes, you read that right. The tape holding together the cockpit window. No word yet whether MacGyver was on the scene as well. Nervous fliers looking outside their windows before takeoff were probably not comforted to see the ground crew using what appeared to be "duct tape or gaffer tape" to secure the edges of the window. Said one passenger in The Sun, "We were in the sky, then the pilot said due to damage on the windscreen, we were going to have to turn back." In fairness, The Sun also reported that The Irish Aviation Authority said a new window seal was being secured with tape as a precaution, and that they had completed their investigation into the incident. If Ryanair is going to scare their passengers like this, they may have to reconsider their plan to remove almost all of the bathrooms on their planes. Those extra lavatories may be needed after all. What do you think? Did Ryanair value cost and time savings over passenger safety, or would you feel comfortable flying in a plane literally held together by tape—for any reason? http://www.smartertravel.com/airfare...duct-tape.html |
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Airplane Literally Held Together With 'Duct Tape'?
Patrick Smith had a piece about this in his column Ask the Pilot on
Salon: http://www.salon.com/2011/10/27/ryan...rsy/singleton/ which includes a picture. |
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