Gotta love this sight on the Airbus A320 on which I flew home from Portland yesterday:
Yep, that's duct tape holding up the luggage bin door. Right above the emergency exits too - can you imagine if it fell off and blocked the exits at the wrong time? And just to make it more fun, I snapped this while we were waiting for mechanics after the first takeoff attempt was abandoned, leading to a return to the gate. That turned out to be caused by low oil levels in the drive unit for a generator on one of the engines, discovered as we were accelerating down the runway for takeoff. Eventually they added more oil and we departed an hour late.
Gives you confidence in the maintenance department, doesn't it?
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