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Piece of Delta airplane wing plummets onto NC driveway mid-flight — and crew had no idea until they landed
nypost.com ^ | July 2, 2025 | Caitlin McCormack

Posted on 07/02/2025 8:03:07 PM PDT by lowbridge

The sky is falling!

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.

Trailing edge flaps are used during takeoff and landing to help the plane slow down and maintain altitude, according to NASA. Passengers lucky enough to nab the coveted window seats near the wings typically have the perfect view of the flaps in action.

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KEYWORDS: boeing; delta

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1 posted on 07/02/2025 8:03:07 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

If it’s Boeing ....


2 posted on 07/02/2025 8:04:34 PM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: lowbridge
It landed smack dab in the middle of one unlucky Tar Heel’s driveway, just a few yards away from their car.

Why “unlucky”?

Missed the house, the car and people….and the neighbors have something to talk about for the next few weeks instead of the weather, their ailments and politics.

3 posted on 07/02/2025 8:09:52 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: Jane Long

If it’s Boeing, it will go boing!


4 posted on 07/02/2025 8:11:38 PM PDT by BipolarBob (I tried pushing the envelope but it remained stationery.)
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To: hole_n_one

It hit the unlucky driveway.


5 posted on 07/02/2025 8:13:18 PM PDT by TexasGator (i.. logo About Issues Projects Products Connect Subscribe Invest June 19, 2025 | Insight '1-1111 -)
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To: lowbridge
in the middle of one unlucky Tar Heel’s driveway, just a few yards away from their car.

Sound pretty lucky to me. Didn't hit the car. Didn't hit the house. Didn't hit them.

But Delta should remove the flaps from their other 737s. The part obviously not needed for safe flight and landing.

6 posted on 07/02/2025 8:14:39 PM PDT by PAR35
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At least they use them. Air India didn’t.


7 posted on 07/02/2025 8:17:50 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: BipolarBob

Better outcome than the recent Japanese 737. But at least that carrier gave the passengers enough money to buy new underwear.


8 posted on 07/02/2025 8:21:03 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: crusty old prospector

It does seem that extending flaps for landing would cause a little asymmetry if a flap on one side was missing.

Maybe Delta should upgrade to the 320 family.


9 posted on 07/02/2025 8:24:23 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: PAR35

C’mon, man. Stick with Boeing. Airbus is European faygs.


10 posted on 07/02/2025 8:29:52 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: lowbridge

” Piece of Delta airplane wing plummets onto NC driveway mid-flight — and crew had no idea until they landed. “

That’s what you call going on a wing and a prayer.

The pilots were winging it when the piece fell off.

No one made a flap of it until they landed.


11 posted on 07/02/2025 8:36:18 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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Coming back from JAX once. I was on the wing. AA 727. Port engine smoked and got in the cab. Just enough for us to smell it for a little bit. Thought I was going to die.


12 posted on 07/02/2025 8:39:32 PM PDT by waterhill (Nobody cares, work harder!)
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It is not safe to ride on the wing.


13 posted on 07/02/2025 8:47:36 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: lowbridge

This could have been one of those Delta “unmanned cockpit” flights, and the all female crew may have been too busy making tik tok videos to notice the plane was falling apart. At least it landed right side up, so I could be wrong.


14 posted on 07/02/2025 8:53:38 PM PDT by dznutz
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To: Repeal The 17th

Didn’t have a choice. Have not flown since. Used to meet some interesting people on those flights.


15 posted on 07/02/2025 8:58:46 PM PDT by waterhill (Nobody cares, work harder!)
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To: Repeal The 17th

Don’t hunt Wyo anymore due to cwd. And AA never shipped meat like I wanted.


16 posted on 07/02/2025 9:05:20 PM PDT by waterhill (Nobody cares, work harder!)
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Actually could not ship meat on AA.


17 posted on 07/02/2025 9:07:26 PM PDT by waterhill (Nobody cares, work harder!)
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So other people were flying on the wing with you?
I hope y’all were all holding on real tight!


18 posted on 07/02/2025 9:10:11 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: lowbridge

I live exactly 8 miles from the end of a major airport runway. Planes are 1800-2000’ feet above me when they pass directly over my house. Some part (wing, fuselage, etc) of the majority of planes are directly above as they pass.

About 4 years ago an emergency slide fell into a neighborhood about 1 1/2 miles from me. Landed in the front yard of a house. Mostly rubber but enough metal framework to kill someone.

On an average day I must have 100+ large jets go over my house, both landing and taking off. I have lived here 10+ years.

I’m waiting.......


19 posted on 07/02/2025 9:13:45 PM PDT by Az Joe (Live free or die)
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I would move. Lived near Carswell AFB in the 80s (now a jrb Ft. WORTH). It got loud.


20 posted on 07/02/2025 9:27:41 PM PDT by waterhill (Nobody cares, work harder!)
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