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  • Passengers revolt after being told to fly on jet with its wing tip missing

    11/03/2007 5:48:45 PM PDT · by Stoat · 104 replies · 988+ views
    The Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | November 3, 2007 | DANIEL BOFFEY
    Passengers revolt after being told to fly on jet with its wing tip missingBy DANIEL BOFFEY - More by this author » Last updated at 21:43pm on 3rd November 2007  An airline crew faced a rebellion when they told passengers they were going to fly on a jet that had lost its wing tip in a runway crash.  The SriLankan Airlines customers had been on the Airbus A340 a day earlier when it sliced through a wing of a stationary British Airways 747 at Heathrow, delaying departure by 24 hours. So they were amazed to be boarding the same...