<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><div><span>Courtesy of The Age (Melbourne, Australia) at:</span></div><div><br></div><div><span></span><a href="http://www.theage.com.au/travel/travel-incidents/we-know-about-this--note-written-on-planes-damaged-wing-20120808-23tk8.html">http://www.theage.com.au/travel/travel-incidents/we-know-about-this--note-written-on-planes-damaged-wing-20120808-23tk8.html</a></div><div><br><span>-----------------------------------</span><br><span></span><br><span><h1 class="cN-headingPage" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 28px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font: normal normal normal 2.3em/normal Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; position: relative; z-index: 1; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; line-height: 1.3em; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">'We know about this' - note written on plane's damaged wing</h1></span></div><div><span>A passenger on an Alaska Airlines flight bound to Seattle looked out the window and saw what appeared to be a damaged area on the wing with a handwritten note saying, "We know about this."</span><br><span></span><br><span>The incident July 28 drew comments on Twitter and other social media websites, but the Seattle-based airline says there was nothing to worry about.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Spokeswoman Bobbie Egan said Tuesday that it was an approved trim repair to the corner flap on the right wing. A maintenance technician wrote to let the flight crew know.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Egan says, "The message was the result of someone's good intentions" but the wing note "was not appropriate and did not follow company procedures."</span><br><span></span><br><span>The message was immediately removed, and Alaska apologised for any alarm it may have caused.</span><br><span></span><br><span>---------------</span><br><span></span><br><span>An image posted on the web shows the handwritten note indicating the Alaska Airlines 'know about' the damaged wing.</span><br><span></span><br></div><div><img src="cid:5CAC3106-D8AE-4DBD-BA3F-B83861214A9F" id="5CAC3106-D8AE-4DBD-BA3F-B83861214A9F" width="620" height="349"></div><div><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>-----------------------------------</span><br><span></span><br><span>Seeya round town, Moscow.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Tom Hansen</span><br><span>Moscow, Idaho</span><br><span></span><br><span>"We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The college students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."</span><br><span></span><br><span>- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)</span><br></div><div></div></div><div></div></body></html>