Winging it with masking tape: Air-travel oversight denounced

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A passenger plane with masking tape holding up electrical cords and a hot-wired instrument panel. Another aircraft fixed with the kind of parts that could have come from Canadian Tire.

An Air Canada jetliner doing an illegal refuelling with a running engine and passengers on board.

Those stories became public yesterday as unions representing aviation inspectors, mechanics and Transport Canada staff told the House of Commons transport committee that Canada's new airline safety system has turned them into deskbound bureaucrats who no longer conduct hands-on inspections.

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Winging it with masking tape: Air-travel oversight denounced - The Globe and Mail