Airplane passenger shocked by ‘gaffer tape’ all over Boeing 787 wing: ‘What the hell!?’
NY Post
What a sticky situation for Boeing.
It was another day, another mile-high issue for the fiasco-plagued airplane designer when a UK passenger grew alarmed after noticing pieces of tape on the exterior of a Boeing 787 during a flight to India, as seen in shocking photos.
“I’ve flown all around the world, but never seen anything like that before,” David Parker, 62, told South West News Service of the incident, which occurred on Feb. 5 while he was traveling from Manchester, UK, to Goa with his fiancé.
Things were going swimmingly until the real estate agent noticed a patchwork quilt of silver adhesive on the plane’s wings.
“It began peeling off mid-flight, I thought, ‘What the hell!?'” exclaimed the appalled Brit. “I pointed it out to my missus — she just said, ‘I wish you hadn’t shown me that.'”
Accompanying photos show the strips of tape, which look like something a boy would use to repair a model airplane.
