Originally Posted by
joepilot
A few years ago, after landing in OGG, a pax mentioned, as he was getting off, that we had lost a piece of the #3 engine pylon. I asked him when this had happened, and he said "about two hours ago". I checked, and sure enough, a blow out disk was missing from the #3 pylon.
For every dozen or so silly passenger comments there are one of these nuggets. I haven't had in find something as serious as the blow out disk but some have made good finds like loose screws engine nacelle or leaks.