A New York-bound Virgin Atlantic flight was canceled just moments before takeoff last week when an alarmed passenger said he spotted several screws missing from the plane’s wing.

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    9 months ago

    Panels coming off during flight is still not ideal, even if they’re not critical to flying. They can hit things that are more essential.

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        9 months ago

        Yeah, it’s like if a door would fall off a plane in the course of a flight, very unlikely

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          9 months ago

          Touché, although I’m assuming this is a different model of aircraft so not plagued by the same issues.

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          9 months ago

          The reason I think that it’s unlikely to be problematic is because the experts quoted in the article said it’s unlikely to be problematic.

          I also have a very small amount of knowledge on this and know that planes fly with missing parts/broken things all the time, just like how everything in our car isn’t working 100% of the time either but we still drive it.