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Old 6th Jul 2009, 11:40
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Technical delay? "Is anyone on board an engineer?"

Whilst not worthy of Rumours and News, it's certainly something I've never heard before

BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Glasgow, Lanarkshire and West | Passenger fixes faulty airliner

Just a pity there wasn't a bit more detail in the story
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Off-duty engineer to the rescue!

Did he have his own spanners too?

BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Glasgow, Lanarkshire and West | Passenger fixes faulty airliner
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Cool

Nope, just a bıro!

Heads for the door....

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Do Thomas Cook carry speed tape on all their a/c? Hope he put in 4 hours O/T and a call-out............

Right I'll get me coat.............
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Plane broken down? That's OK, SLF will fix it!

A passenger fixed a fault on a holiday jet, saving other passengers from an 8 hour delay.

BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Glasgow, Lanarkshire and West | Passenger fixes faulty airliner
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Moved to SLF, so no response yet, Super ?
Wonder why?
Agenda? Us???
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Already being discussed in this thread

http://www.pprune.org/passengers-slf...-engineer.html

Which contains a couple threads started on the topic which have been merged
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I originally started a thread in Rumours and News. It got moved and then merged.
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Old 7th Jul 2009, 09:03
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Great story,especially this top bit of reporting:

"Chris Browne, managing director of Thomson Airways, said he was "delighted"....."

May I kindly advise the BBC that Chris Browne is in fact a woman!!!!

Nothing like a good bit of journalism to start the day.
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Anyone know what the actual snag was? My ac engineer is interested.
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As every engineer knows:

One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go and duct tape to make them stop. - G. Weilacher
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