I spent a fair amount of time looking over the photo today (was on Twitter).
Yeah, that's high-grade duck-tape.
According to regulations.....you can do this, and it's 'legal'.
Now if you asked me.....passenger sitting there and seeing this 3 minutes into the flight....it'd scare the crap out of me.
The word is....this was a African airlines (no name job).
Other question here....what triggered the holes? Bullets? Rust?
Aircraft wings encase the fuel tanks.
ReplyDeleteMetal fragments -- shrapnel comes to mind -- passing through the wings tend to shorten the range...