Duct Tape - at nine tenths of the speed of sound?

I just read this (The Sun - Passengers watch Ryanair crew mend jet window with TAPE) article and it really did make me laugh out loud. The jist of it is this: An aircraft maintenance crew applied some duct-tape-esque adhesive to the windscreen of a Ryanair passenger jet, while flight crew and passengers were on board. From what I gathered, the windscreen had just been replaced, had a fresh seal on it, and the mx guys decided to add a little tape to be extra careful. Now all the pax on board seem to think it's just a little duct tape holding the windshield on, and naturally they become apprehensive. Twenty minutes past wheels up, the flight crew decided to abort the flight and rtb because the tape was making a hideous noise.

1) Mx crews have the option of deferring non-critical repairs to the next scheduled maintenance. When they do this, they typically have to apply this tape to the thing that has to be fixed. I once became aware of an "airliner" that had suffered some hanger-rash to it's vertical stabilizer. Everything in the tail empennage worked okay, so mx just slapped enough 600m.p.h. tape on it until the dent was flush with the rest of the aircraft skin, the jet was loaded up with pax, and off they went on their merry way. If you've flown commercially, you've probably flown on a plane with something with tape on it.

2) I personally have acted as pilot-in-command of an aircraft with this silvery miracle tape holding a piece of plastic on. It didn't look important, so it passed my pre-flight inspection. I didn't care if it fell off. No big deal.

3) In defense of the aircrew on that Ryanair jet, the sound that tape made was probably the worst sound they'd ever heard. I had the unfortunate pleasure of riding in a Ford Expedition with a freshly installed windshield.  It had only been on for about twenty minutes, and as such, had this bright neon-orange safety tape all around its periphery. After asking about the day-glow adornments, I took my seat and settled in for what proved to be a two-hour ride from hell. Two-hours of freeway driving between 60 and 80m.p.h. The sound that the tape made as the wind hit it can only be described as an orgy of no less than fifteen angry banshees. And some of the banshees had just received a tax audit. So yes, I probably would have said "Fuck that noise, son!" and told ATC "Look brah, we gotta turn back. Forget this flight, man. It's not happening."

My God this was a pointless blog post!