A New York-bound Virgin Atlantic flight was canceled just moments before takeoff last week when an alarmed passenger said he spotted several screws missing from the plane’s wing.

  • @Custoslibera
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    -910 months ago

    The chances of that panel actually coming off are vanishingly small.

    • lad
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      810 months ago

      Yeah, it’s like if a door would fall off a plane in the course of a flight, very unlikely

      • @Custoslibera
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        010 months ago

        Touché, although I’m assuming this is a different model of aircraft so not plagued by the same issues.

    • @Potatos_are_not_friends
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      410 months ago

      And what’s the worst that can happen?

      If we ignore the part of people dying and all.

    • @plantedworld
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      310 months ago

      ITT:

      “We aren’t the experts in planes and how they work.”

      Also

      “Very unlikely this comes apart.”

      • @Custoslibera
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        10 months ago

        The reason I think that it’s unlikely to be problematic is because the experts quoted in the article said it’s unlikely to be problematic.

        I also have a very small amount of knowledge on this and know that planes fly with missing parts/broken things all the time, just like how everything in our car isn’t working 100% of the time either but we still drive it.