Yesterday an SLF of my acquaintance noticed that a BA A320 (G-EUUN) was getting ready to leave LHR T5 with one of the winglets missing.
I reassured him about the significance (or rather lack of it), but it set me wondering about how often this happens?
Do winglets get "dinged" by Servair and company all the time, and is ten percent of the fleet flying with one or two missing?
Or is this indeed pretty rare? Does somebody have any statistics?
CJ
PS Hoping for a serious answer, which is why I posted here rather than in JetBlast
