Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan - Alaska Maintenance - message to passengers

N611AS, a Boeing 737-790, photo taken Saturday 7/28/12.

http://i.imgur.com/Rr9wN.jpg

Most likely not a message to passengers but to flight crews to stop them from writing up something that maintenance already has in their records.

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Guess the pilots need to adjust the trim a bit...

Nice pic ;)

Most likely not a message to passengers but to flight crews to stop them from writing up something that maintenance already has in their records.

Not likely at all; a pilot cannot see the top of the flaps during a walk around.

Not likely at all; a pilot cannot see the top of the flaps during a walk around.

Whomever the message is meant for, it still seems kind of an odd thing to do. :p

Not likely at all; a pilot cannot see the top of the flaps during a walk around.

I kind of agree. I'd suspect it's to prevent passengers who can see it out of the window from freaking out.

Not likely at all; a pilot cannot see the top of the flaps during a walk around.

Could be written on the bottom too.

I take it that does not make the plane unsafe since they are still flying.

Overall a really funny picture and agree it is for the passengers.

At least they didn't fix with speed tape :)

Not likely at all; a pilot cannot see the top of the flaps during a walk around.

Spokeswoman Bobbie Egan said Tuesday it was an approved trim repair to the corner flap on the right wing. A maintenance technician wrote to let the flight crew know.
Egan says, "The message was the result of someone's good intentions" but the wing note "was not appropriate and did not follow company procedures."


Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2012/08/07/2576387/alaska-airlines-says-jet-wing.html#storylink=cpy

Seems to be making the media circuit now: Huffington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/07/note-on-alaska-airlines-wing-not-appropriate_n_1752715.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false)

Here's hoping the tech also made the appropriate entries in the maintenance logs.

Flew on N315AS as AS72 JNU-SEA this morning, got a nice surprise when I looked out the window:

http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w95/Kaphias/N315AS.jpg

Apparently not the same plane as the one with the message on it. Is this a common issue/fix?