Photos of airplane wings patched with what looks like duct tape have gone viral, but it’s actually another material known as speed tape.
The tape is primarily deployed when weathering has caused a part to be exposed to the airstream. The plane is safe to fly, but the airline wants to prevent any further weathering until it can repair the part, Nance said.
“It is not something that would be used to hold together two parts of the airplane,” he said. “This is usually skin, but you don’t want anything peeling back further than it might already have started peeling back.” Nance added that airlines “don’t want to use it any more than they have to,” especially where it is visible to passengers.“There’s just no way this day and time to explain to passengers — they think you’re holding the airplane together with baling wire and Scotch tape,” he said.
Speed tape is safe to use “for temporary, minor repairs to nonstructural aircraft components,” an FAA spokesperson said in a statement. Each airline spells out approved uses of the tape in its maintenance manual, which subsequently must be approved by the FAA, according to the spokesperson.$805,000 for flying 193 flights with improperly applied speed tape.
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