Recent news reports have suggested that peeling paint on the wings of Boeing 787-9 aircraft may be a widespread issue, with a spokeswoman for Air New Zealand telling online publication Stuff that it was a global problem.Ī spokesperson for Boeing, meanwhile, told aviation industry publication Simple Flying that the peeling paint was "a cosmetic issue only". They pointed CheckMate to a video of the wing of an Etihad-operated 787-9 to illustrate the similarities with the wing pictured in the Twitter post.Īs for why the wing was taped, the researchers alerted CheckMate to a 2020 document issued by the US Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).Īccording to the document, Boeing had notified the FAA that certain model 787 jets were "prone to paint adhesion failures due to Ultra Violet (UV) ray damage". ( Supplied)īut the tape pictured - known as speed tape - is used regularly in the aviation industry and, in this case, was likely applied to cover peeling paint.Īccording to researchers from the Information Futures Lab (formerly known as First Draft News), the plane pictured was most probably a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner. The aviation industry regularly uses "speed tape" on aircraft that have peeling paint. "When choosing your favourite airline, choose wisely," Mr Wakeham captioned his photo. The photo, which shows a plane wing covered in patches of what at first glance appears to be duct tape, was posted to Twitter last week by Australian opera singer David Wakeham and has since been shared widely on other social media platforms including Reddit and Facebook. Is Qantas patching up planes with duct tape?Ī viral photo appearing to show a Qantas plane with a heavily taped wing - which some online users suggested may have posed a safety risk - is not what it seems, CheckMate has found. We also fact check Peter Dutton's defence spending claims, and pick apart much-hyped rumours of a Chinese military coup. This week, CheckMate investigates whether Qantas passengers should be worried by online images of aeroplane wings plastered with tape. You can read the latest edition below, and subscribe to have the next newsletter delivered straight to your inbox. Operation of PA 6039 in Pan Am blue (exceptįor the final leg from Nouméa to Auckland) and the epic westwardĬonsiderably more detail can be found in the references.CheckMate is a weekly newsletter from RMIT FactLab which recaps the latest in the world of fact checking and misinformation, drawing on the work of FactLab and its sister organisation, RMIT ABC Fact Check. Today's Featured Map illustrates the stops along trip, with the scheduled Stops, under radio silence and with assorted threats along the way,īefore reaching New York before dawn on 6 January 1942. From there, they flew via nine intermediate Nouméa to evacuate 22 Pan Am employees, women, and children, and take The crew had no charts for areas west of Auckland and had to developĪ plan with the help of the Auckland library. Proceed westbound soonest yourĭiscretion to avoid hostilities and deliver NC18602 to Marine Terminal Strip all company markings, registration numbers, and indentifiable IMPLEMENT PLAN A.Ĭaptain Robert Ford secretly had a sealed envelope outlining Plan A:Ĭontinue to the nearest safe Pan American base, avoiding enemy forces. Ground station in Nouméa they picked up a repeating message via Morse Code: Tuning to the long-range signal from Pan Am's San Francisco as PA 6040, but two hours afterĭeparting Nouméa radioman Eugene Leach heard a radio report of the JapaneseĪttack on Peark Harbor. Upon reaching Auckland, the aircraft was intended to return to Pan Am's San Francisco base on Treasure Island to Auckland, New Zealand, PA 6039, a scheduled passenger flight from The trip had started on 2 December 1941 as (registered NC-18602 and subsequently renamed Pacific Clipper)Ĭompleted Pan Am's first around-the-world flight. 6 January 2022 – – Archives of Featured MapsĨ0 year ago, a Boeing 314 Clipper flying boat named California Clipper
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