How Cebu Pacific fix planes

[VocalNeal]

Cebu's maintenance dept motto?

If the stewardesses don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.

[pseudolus]

Feel sorry for Abu Hamza then. Neither handsome or handy.

[BobR]

I dislike Cebu Pacific solely from their advertising; the so called low fares they advertise are never available on any flight on any day.

Kuwait Airways was a nice flight from Bangkok to Manila on an A340-300 with full meal service and it was cheaper than Cebu Pacific

[bobfish]

"Speedtape" goes by lots of nicknames, but is NOT your garden variety duct tape. Personally, I like "instant airframe".

In general:

Tape has to be industry certified -think Boeing/Airbus/Milspec etc -, and the correct grade used in accordance with certified engineering practise. Oversight of its use comes down to the relevent regulatory authority; eg FAA etc.

[BobR]

Ironic that this old thread resurfaced just before this:

Philippines airport shut, A320 accident Published: 3 Jun 2013 at 13.49Online news: Philippine aviation authorities shut down one of the country's busiest airports on Monday after a passenger jet overshot the runway when landing during a rainstorm, officials said.
The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) said Davao International Airport in the south of the country would be closed until Monday evening while authorities removed the Cebu Pacific Airbus.

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[bobfish]

To be pedantic, it was a runway "excursion". [An "overshoot" describes a - hopefully inflight - situation where the runway is being overflown and missed completely. An "over run" would be running off the far end]



No one knows the reason = except maybe the pilot - however lots of conjecture from failing runway lights to windscreen wiper fail. The main gear doors are open. leading opinion towards a possible partial hydraulic system failure. That year of A320 should have been modified with a different system to operate the nosewheel steering [used below around 70kts] to keep straight.

Gonna take more than speed tape to fix it though

[wasabi]

Bear attacks plane in Alaska,and tape repair works. "Mythbusters" on tele reconstructed this and plane flew.Then they taped a whole plane and it flew.

[cdnski12]

In 1972, I flew from Katmandu to Calcutta on a Thai Airways Boeing 707. One of the covers on the Aileron hangers got hung up when the pilot retracted the Aileron back into the wing after take off. The metal flap was crumpled into a twisted mess. The plane flew along on a slight cant to one side.
WE landed in Calcutta in a monsoon rain. The water was about 30cm deep all over the airport. The plane hydroplaned down the runway. The 1st Officer asked the transit passengers to remain on the plane as the flooding was causing many problems. Snakes were swimming around in the water.
I hung out on the gangway for a fag, as I smoked at that time. The Pommie 1st Officer came out, took off his shoes & socks and paddled around in the water, checking over the plane. I finally asked him if we would be stuck in Calcutta overnight due to the crumpled hunk of metal on the aileron. "Nah", he said in a cultivated Brit accent, "Shouldn't worry abaht it. It'll probably fall off when we take off".
He was right. My seat provided a good view of the offending piece of metal. We took off spraying sheets of water. As we rose up over the surrounding rice paddies, I saw the 0.5m sq piece of metal fall away, directly over some Coolie Huts scattered amongst the rice paddies. I often wondered how the villagers fared on that day.

[palexxxx]

does NASA use it tooo?

maybe it could have held the tiles in place on the shuttles if they did use it