Would this plane have flown?

"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
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"Robert M. Gary" wrote in message
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I was down in a remote area of Mexico this last weekend and a truck
backed into my aileron. I was lucky that the driver had a sat phone and
I was able to call an A&P to come down to Mexico and swap it for me.
However, all the local pilots, and the A&P who came down seemed to
think it would have flown ok as was. From a simply academic point of
view I"m curious what you guys think.

-Robert

Just looking at the photo, I would have been concerned about the outer
attach point for possible post impact misalignment that might under load
cause an issue, but that being said, I've flown prop fighters on ferry
permits that looked worse off than this.
The bottom line is that you had a known damaged airframe and a take off
decision to make that involved a go/no go without looking inside the
aileron
for hidden damage.
If the guys that won't be in the airplane are right, and you don't have a
problem, you're gold. If on the other hand, if the guys not going in the
airplane are wrong, and you do have a problem.........well......they're
not
in the airplane......and you might be dead!
My decision would have been to have it looked at before I flew it out.
Dudley Henriques