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Yikes!!! Not fun.

I was on a SWA Flight once from DFW to AUS. I try to get an Emergency Exit row seat when I fly because there is Extra leg room in those rows.

We get airborne and the Cabin Crew starts beverage service and while I wait My turn I look out the window at the wing and notice several screws are backing out of a panel outside the window. They were not loose when We started the Flight! I know for sure because I always look for things like that when I fly. (Dad worked for AA and I’ve been on planes since I was a Baby) so the Flight Attendant offers Me a beverage and I order 2 double Rum & Cokes telling Her I know that the Service will be one pass down the Cabin and then the trash run on the way back. I get My drinks and go right back to eyeballing the Screws in the Wing for the rest of the Flight. They stay in the same place, Thank God!!!

We land in AUS and I wait till everybody else is disembarked. The FA that served My drinks came by telling Me the was the end of service for this plane Tonight.

I said “I know but I’ve been watching these screws out on the wing backing out during Our Flight and thought that I would tell the Crew after landing.”

She looks out the window and asks “Why didn’t You say anything sooner?”

I replied that We were already halfway to AUS and I didn’t want to cause a panic because there was nothing Anybody could have done anyway and that She might want to tell the Flight Engineer about it.

She Thanked Me and “I’ll tell Him right now.