Flapsforty: "Strapping lad with the big hands all FEs seemed to have, carrying a huge flashlight. Grins at me big time and goes "Ok where´s your hole babe?"
I show him, he shines the torch and the grin is gone.
Long story short, we flew low level to Caracas, a boarding bridge rather than boarding stairs airport, where the aircraft was grounded for 24 hours and a riveter was flown in to fix it."
How does an aircraft develope a hole in the fuselage?
Did the wheels pick up a piece of something and fling it up on the earlier take off? [a la the French Concorde accident?]