The biggest problem here is the use of the term ‘cut and shut’
Taking parts off one machine to use on another is no different to taking parts out of a box or off a shelf. The damage is repaired with replacement parts that meet stringent requirements.
Cut and shut is something else where damaged parts are patched or repaired badly using bits that are no good, this being done by un authorised personell and not cleared by the authorities.
Using parts from other machines is very common in civil and military. Many of you will have read about the B-17 in WW.II that was the front of one machine and the back of another..different marks too and one half in the natural and the other in green.
This is just making use of what is around. Pics can be found of aircraft with the wrong serial on a wing because a damaged wing was replaced with one from a crashed aircraft. It’s always been done and is only done with parts properly checked and documented.
In civil aviation there have been instances. The most famous would be the TWA 707 which had it’s cockpit area completely blown off by hijackers grenades placed on the flightdeck. The nose of the BOAC 707 G-ARWE that had caught fire in the air and burned out on the ground after an emergency landing was grafted on and the aircraft flew again until it’s normal retirement time.
Garry
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