Panel fell off jet over Perth Hills

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A Jetstar A320 lost an engine access panel over the Perth Hills on a flight from Melbourne on Wednesday evening, according to insiders.
The plane apparently encountered heavy turbulence over the Hills and it is understood that this may have caused the panel to break away.

Panel fell off jet over Perth Hills - The West Australian

 

[samh004]

I’d have thought the panel would be secured against heavy turbulence… sounds like an engineer might go into hiding soon.

 

[Mal]

sounds like an engineer might go into hiding soon.

Hmm, now where is that pillar of society "Steve Purvinas" (aka Pinhead) from ALAEA in all this? Normally his beautiful mug is all over the news screaming about how overseas maintenance is the end of safety, that only Australian (ALAEA members of course) engineers can maintain planes, and how everyone else in the world is on an evil course of destruction.

Silence. Hmmm. Strange that.