Once, an aeroplane which Swissair had leased to another company was wrongly taxied through the de-icing rig at MUC. The result was that the tail got banged on the rig (it was an MD-80) and the stab, screw, whole horizontal stab and the left elevator had to be changed.
The pieces came from Australia, Canada and China. The work force was a Swissair bunch with the McD. rep in attendance. We did the test flight on it and, as always had some delays before the off. The last one was because the right tip was measured to be 1/2" behind and 1/4" above the left one on the rigging check.
A cable went to Long Beach and back came one saying "Well done - that's better than we usually manage!" The thing flew well too.