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Video of loose wing screw on Air China Boeing 737-NG
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Video of loose wing screw on Air China Boeing 737-NG
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Loose, missing. What’s the diff?
Somebody forgot the loctite.
It’s just the cover. If it falls off you might be just an extra half hour getting to your destination.
Those are just aesthetic screws
After seeing that [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WcjRWRCeKQ) landed safely, nothing is scaring me anymore.
The pilot could get rid of that pesky screw by turning the plane upside down and letting it fall out.
I would open the emergency exit door and jump out of the plane if I saw that happening on a flight.
I think this might be a camlock style captive fastener, not a screw:
[https://store.skybolt.com/aircraft-panel-fasteners-c140.aspx](https://store.skybolt.com/aircraft-panel-fasteners-c140.aspx)
You turn them a quarter turn and a lever moves into a locking slot to provide holding pressure. A spring usually keeps the head from rattling around like that, but these don’t really loosen with vibration like a screw. That spring probably just needs to be replaced.
In any case, this is an aerodynamic fairing, not a structural part of the wing (these aren’t structural fasteners), and the plane can fly just fine without it. Honestly, the *missing* fastener is probably the bigger red flag, but meh.
puts some loctite on the shiz
That camera though
Loose screw….what about the missing one???
Made in America.
That’s a rivet.
A loose screw and a missing screw are a pretty good sign that they’re not the only pieces of loose/missing hardware.
OP needs to file a report. If not in the US, them in whatever country that airline flies in.
https://asrs.arc.nasa.gov/
ho ho
That was riveting to watch.
No big deal, honest. Nothing that would affect the aircraft. Something in front of the engine, where it can be affect by FOD would be a concern.
Memo for air travelers: Airplane wings are large sheets of metal, held together by many, many screws. Sometimes, one screw starts to come loose. That is why there are many, many more.
How do I know this? I worked on airplanes and helicopters in the 1980’s. Little things do go wrong sometimes. Sometimes a screw will be stripped as you tighten or loosen it. Sometimes you can’t tell. Sometimes we would insert a fragment from a paper match into the hole beside the screw, to make it tighter. So long as you have lots and lots of other screws, one screw isn’t that important.
As mentioned, these shortcuts don’t work for screws that are in front of the engine intake…
tornillos a explotar
What’s unseen here is that there is something on the wing.
Per the manual you only need a handful to pass, missing a few is fine.