"Lawrence L'Hote" wrote in message
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This was a few weeks after that national news story
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news...79/detail.html
had aired. Anyway the indignant attendent said "we DON"T use duct tape
on
our planes wings! but I will have to check with the captain about using
that roll of duct tape we have back there. We are only to use that tape
to
restrain passengers."

High-speed tape is used to cover minor sheet-metal problems all the time. I
remember one of our birds "awaiting phase" which had a six-foot crack near
the wing root, taped and "FAI" for a couple hundred hours.