A few years ago, Midland scraped the tail of a 321 on landing in Dublin. Nobody appeared to see that the aircraft was holed and they turned the airplane around, filled it with passengers and flew it back to LHR.
After takeoff from Dublin the aircraft wouldn't pressurise properly due to the gaping hole in the fuselage. So the crew descended and continued back to LHR at a much lower level, partially pressurised.
Despite a heavy, bounced landing, with a high pitch attitude, captain's intervention on the second toutchdown; cabin crew reports of "clanking" in the rear galley area, neither of the cockpit crew went out to see if anything was wrong. When does the penny drop with some people?
One can only wonder.
