1 
For those of you who travel, seeing the words “We Know About This” scrawled on the damaged wing of your aircraft, as you taxi down the runway probably sounds like something from “the Twilight Zone”
But that’s just what happened to a passenger on this Alaska Air flight bound for Seattle from Burbank:
According to Alaska Air the flight was perfectly safe…
Alaska Airlines spokeswoman Bobbie Egan said that the photo showed a permanent approved trim repair to the corner flap of the right wing, and that the plane was absolutely safe to fly.
“The small indent shown in the photo was reported multiple times in multiple flight crew reports. A maintenance technician wrote on the wing to acknowledge to flight crews that the repair was made, documented and that the plane was airworthy,” she said.
Egan said the airline immediately removed the message from the wing upon hearing about it, and apologized for any alarm it may have caused.
uhh… gee… Thanks Alaska Air (ALK)
Cue the scary music………
One Response to ““We know about this” – Something you don’t want to read on the damaged wing of your plane”
Sergeant Smiles
Totally a red X condition. I have no idea how they do it on the civilian side, but we’d call AR out to replace to flap. It might be okay for flight for a while, but rick vs. reward here isn’t worth it. They should ground the plane, as I’m sure that there are plenty in their fleet to take over the pond hopping that this one is doing. They need to call up AAR and order a new flap.