Additionally, every now and then a passenger observes something wrong with another aircraft while waiting for takeoff. While lined up at CVG for takeoff, I noticed a puddle under an adjacent DL 727. I was in my post-CRC daze, but I stared for a moment or two and realized that something was actively dripping down from the mid wing root where it met the fuselage. I thought... fuel or hydraulic fluid, but either way I have to tell somebody. The FA looked out the window, get me a reassuring blather about condensation from the AC etc, but she did go over to a deadheading pilot in the front row of the coach cabin. he looked out the window, then went to the phone to the cockpit, and then the 727 eventually pulled back to the terminal. The deadheading pilot later told me that if the rapid leak wasn't fuel, then he did not know what it was! So keep your shades open, and keep observant, just in case my plane is the one with the leak next time!
[This message has been edited by RobertS975 (edited 05-27-2003).]