Originally Posted by
Tafflyer
Seriously though, why would any airline genuinely concerned with safety ever take an aircraft in this condition off the ground? That the panels are loose can have all sorts of more sinister meanings apart from just the engineers forgot the screws.
An old colleague of mine sent me a photo of KLM aircraft with a panel hanging down over his head. They refused to do anything about it until he mentioned that he had bags in the hold and he was going to offload himself if they didn't do anything, because he was genuinely worried about suffering injury from a falling panel above his head. It was really hanging off.
They got an engineer out with high speed tape for makeshift repair.