Delta Plane Loses Wing Panel During Flight

[Traderd]

Looks like something is leaking out there.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/17/travel/delta-plane-wing-panel/

 

[Tanker Clown]

As professionals, we have to take safety seriously. From the mechanics who look like they probably lacked attention to detail to the pilot that missed this on the walk around. It seems like a corporate culture of not making safety a priority.

 

[RT8VA]

yeah because you can see the top of the wing on the 757 walking around it

 

[Tanker Clown]

I guess there's no windows in the over wing section? Come on guys. Put a little effort into it. Take I seriously.

 

[BuckMurdock1]

yeah because you can see the top of the wing on the 757 walking around it

Yeah-- gotta say that this one will probably go on the last Mx rep to sign logbook. It is impossible to see the top of the wing during a walk-around and I don't think any operator requires a visual check from inside the cabin except in cases of pre takeoff contamination check (though i can see that one changing soon..since they'll certainly be trying to blame the pilots).

Something tells me that they're pouring over airport gate surveillance footage currently..

 

[HowardBorden]

As professionals, we have to take safety seriously. From the mechanics who look like they probably lacked attention to detail to the pilot that missed this on the walk around. It seems like a corporate culture of not making safety a priority.

Am I supposed to be able to see the future? The report states the panel came off in flight, not that it was missing before the flight departed. Do I buy a crystal ball? Perhaps a Ouija Board should replace the flashlight on the walk around!?!?

 

[jonjuan]

Am I supposed to be able to see the future? The report states the panel came off in flight, not that it was missing before the flight departed. Do I buy a crystal ball? Perhaps a Ouija Board should replace the flashlight on the walk around!?!?

Wonder if tanker is finally at SWA.

 

[BuckMurdock1]

Am I supposed to be able to see the future? The report states the panel came off in flight, not that it was missing before the flight departed. Do I buy a crystal ball? Perhaps a Ouija Board should replace the flashlight on the walk around!?!?

I didn't see the part that it came off in flight. ...It'll be hard to blame some individual for that one..

 

[RT8VA]

A pre flight would take days if you checked every thing you thought some one else missed. Should we start checking torque settings on wheel hubs? Maybe go and check the FAs secured their carts before take off? Climb up in the APU bay and see if everything is connected correctly? The point is you do your pre flight and you trust other things are done correctly because it's the only way you ever get in the air. Had this been a pre flight item I would agree with you but you don't make up your own items to check just because.

I am assuming you never flew a 757 maybe I am wrong but since I have quit a bit of time in them I can say that it's just nonsense that you would do that every pre flight.

 

[Turtle21]

I personally pop the hatches and walk out on both wings during my walk around. I strap a seat cushion to my butt in case I fall off the wing.

 

[RT8VA]

Lol +1

 

[HowardBorden]

I personally pop the hatches and walk out on both wings during my walk around. I strap a seat cushion to my butt in case I fall off the wing.

Agreed, unless I'm going to begin using non destructive testing equipment on each walk around, I'm going to miss this every time. How does this radiography testing equipment work again and more importantly how am I going to fit it in my flight bag?

 

[say again]

If it wasn't there before the flight, I have a feeling that numerous passengers would have noticed and said something.

 

[Tanker Clown]

Like I said, lack of attention to detail and focus on safety seem to be a condition of the corporate culture. Crummy wages, furloughs, bankruptcy. I'm sure all of this has led to an erosion of the professional pilot at Delta. I guess the lack of caring could be justified if you had to work there.

 

[SMcC]

Do you routinely check this area during your preflight?

 

[Tanker Clown]

Do you routinely check this area during your preflight?

How much effort does it take to flip on a wing inspection light and walk to the over wing? I guess it matters how much you care. Maybe the amount you care is in directly proportional to your compensation.

 

[SMcC]

You already made that point. Do you routinely inspect this area in your preflight?

 

[HowardBorden]

How much effort does it take to flip on a wing inspection light and walk to the over wing? I guess it matters how much you care. Maybe the amount you care is in directly proportional to your compensation.

What could you possibly see with a wing inspection light illuminated? Are you implying there was a section rolled back like a sardine can or something?

I realize you carry a large unexplainable grudge against all things Delta, but get a hold of yourself for goodness sake.

 

[Noserider76]

I guess there's no windows in the over wing section? Come on guys. Put a little effort into it. Take I seriously.

Take I seriously? Seriously? No way I.

 

[Scoot 11]

tanker clown is a doosh.

As professionals, we have to take safety seriously. From the mechanics who look like they probably lacked attention to detail to the pilot that missed this on the walk around. It seems like a corporate culture of not making safety a priority.

You're slipping. I expected better. You better brush up!

I guess there's no windows in the over wing section? Come on guys. Put a little effort into it. Take I seriously.

Reading what you write is like trying to smell the color 9!

How much effort does it take to flip on a wing inspection light and walk to the over wing? I guess it matters how much you care. Maybe the amount you care is in directly proportional to your compensation.

Then proportionately, the DL pilots the best compensated in the industry.
BTW, did you ever get hired at SW, or are you still sucking the government's teet?

 

[GogglesPisano]

Unbelievable that in this day and age some of you can still get your chain yanked by a veteran FI troll.

 

[Tanker Clown]

Scoot, I serve our great nation. That's hardly a freeloader. Show some respect.

SMcC, to answer your question, yes I do. It takes a couple seconds and isn't a big deal.

Delta guys still make significantly less than a SWA guy. I've heard of SWA captains making $400k/year. The highest paid Delta pilot and copilot put together don't make that much. Delta 737 captains make SWA copilot money. And that's after they caved on RJ code share to get raises.

That's why I'm sure that this level of apathy runs rampant there. The company doesn't care enough to pay you well, so why should you care enough to look at the wings? As a professional, you should. But at that pay rate, I could see why you would blow it off.

 

[polarjet205]

I just want to know where that panel is....who's house or car it hit.. maybe this Is tied to MH370 somehow!... come on here.. crap happens no pilot is inspecting the upper wing surface.

 

[airplane wizard]

Delta should go back to the name brand duct tape, not the Wal-Mart stuff.

 

[BEECH-SLAPPED]

If it wasn't there before the flight, I have a feeling that numerous passengers would have noticed and said something.

It's highly unlikely that the panel was missing before flight. If so, you would be able to see daylight (provided it was daytime) through the top of the wing during the walk-around. You don't even have to be in the aircraft looking though the window. The large cylinder you see is the right main gear retract actuator. This can also be seen from under the right main gear during a walk-around. Of course, if the panel's not fastened, that's another story!

 

[DTW320]

Delta guys still make significantly less than a SWA guy. I've heard of SWA captains making $400k/year. The highest paid Delta pilot and copilot put together don't make that much.

Last Europe trip I flew, the 2 7ER FO's put together made more than that last year. Your anti DAL dooshbaggery here is long documented, but at least try to get your facts even close to accurate. K?

 

[Tanker Clown]

Last Europe trip I flew, the 2 7ER FO's put together made more than that last year. Your anti DAL dooshbaggery here is long documented, but at least try to get your facts even close to accurate. K?

Hahahahaha. OK. You bet. Hahahahahaha. Hilarious.

 

[Noserider76]

Do you routinely check this area during your preflight?

Clown doesn't do a preflight. He's posting on his phone standing next to the deep fryer at Micky D's.

 

[Nindiri]

Unbelievable that in this day and age some of you can still get your chain yanked by a veteran FI troll.

He's okay, it's amusing to watch him get my friends at Delta wound up.

But he's no Instructor Dude. Now there is a professional troll. Watching Instructor Dude effortlessly inspire rage in people here is awesome.

 

[SMcC]

SMcC, to answer your question, yes I do. It takes a couple seconds and isn't a big deal.

I guess you have a good view from up on that high horse, huh?