Airline Passengers Use Tape To Hold Plane Together During Flight

[matcom]

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GERMAN holidaymakers found themselves using adhesive tape to stick together the interior of a plane operated by a Turkish airline with a troubled safety record, a German newspaper has said.

The midair repair job came during an Onur Air flight from Antalya in southern Turkey to the eastern German city of Leipzig, the Bild newspaper said.

"The pilot started the engines. Suddenly a piece of the interior of the plane fell on our heads. Some of the holidaymakers started to scream," one of the passengers, Gunnar Storch, 34, told Bild.

"A female flight attendant immediately ran into the cockpit to ask for the takeoff to be aborted. But the pilot wasn't in the least bit interested. He just carried on.

"Behind the interior casing, we could see the exposed wiring. It wasn't a very reassuring sight."

Bild published passengers' photographs of the exposed wiring inside the Airbus A321.

Mr Storch, who was returning from a holiday with his wife and two children, said he used tape he had in his hand luggage to attempt to stick the panel back into place as the plane reached an altitude of 33,000 feet (10,000 metres).

The plane later landed safely in Leipzig but Mr Storch said "no one was interested" when he tried to report the incident at the airport.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,16455912-13762,00.html

[flamingyouth]

1. OMG - This is my nightmare come to life.

Seriously, I had a nightmare very similar to this a few years ago. :scared:

[fudge stripe cookays]

3. Yikes!

My nightmares tend to involve planes too! Usually the Alaska Air scenario--straight DOWN.


:scared:
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[GOPisEvil]

2. Note to self: Avoid Onur Airlines at all costs.

:scared:

[UrbScotty]

4. And I thought things were bad in AMERICA...

Wow.