Piece of Delta Airplane Wing Plummets Onto Driveway Mid-Flight — and Crew Had No Idea Until They Landed

. . .A flap from a Delta Airlines plane plummeted from the sky and onto a driveway in North Carolina early Wednesday morning.

The fragment found in a residential Raleigh neighborhood splintered off a Boeing 737 flight from Atlanta to Raleigh-Durham International Airport that had been delayed Tuesday evening due to a thunderstorm in Georgia, according to a spokesperson for Delta.

The flap, which was “evidently separated” from the left wing, didn’t impede the aircraft’s “safe landing” in Raleigh-Durham, the spokesperson wrote.

It landed smack dab in the middle of one unlucky Tar Heel’s driveway, just a few yards away from their car.

Still, the six crew members tending to the 109 customers aboard the flight didn’t realize they’d lost the piece of precious cargo until they landed around 1:15 a.m.

“After the aircraft landed safely, it was observed that a portion of the left wing’s trailing edge flap was not in place. Delta is fully supporting retrieval efforts and will cooperate with investigations as nothing is more important than safety,” the spokesperson wrote. (Read more from “Piece of Delta Airplane Wing Plummets Onto Driveway Mid-Flight — and Crew Had No Idea Until They Landed” HERE)

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