Note on Alaska Airlines plane `not appropriate

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SEATTLE • 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 note saying, "We know about this."
The incident July 28 drew comments on Twitter and other social media websites, but the airline says there was nothing to worry about. Spokeswoman Bobbie Egan said Tuesday that it was an approved trim repair. Egan said, "The message was the result of someone's good intentions" but the wing note "was not appropriate." The message was removed.

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Airline sorry for 'we know' note on damaged wing

That's what one passenger on a July 28 Alaska Airlines flight from Burbank, Calif., to Seattle saw, snapping a photo of the rather unorthodox note that generated criticism on social media.

On Tuesday, Alaska Airlines said that a wing flap on the Boeing 737 had received an FAA-approved trim repair before the flight and was safe to fly.

"And before every flight, pilots do a walk around the plane, and they kept seeing the section repair and pointing it out and kept filing a report saying, 'you need to fix it,' " said airline spokesman Paul McElroy.

Maintenance workers wrote the note to head off further reports, which was "not the best approach," McElroy said. "It is not the best way to report an issue, and we have since removed the writing, and the flap will go in for a total repair in October."

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