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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Also Lockheed-Martin operated there. Nothing like an F-16 screwing around over your house.
To my way of thinking, that Tar Heel was lucky!
Not sure about composites, but I got 0.50/lb for aluminum cans last trip to Pacific Steel….
Is that Debbie Wasserman Schultz?
They are high enough over me that the noise is no bother. I’m just waitin for the pay off when a part busts through my roof or car! Lol
I could see the residents of the home being so disgusted with the aviation industry and not wanting to deal with anyone from it, that they would just put the flap out at the curb in the garbage bin.
Cheap labor, parts of unknown origin, and fewer if any of those pesky FAA inspections.
So we have planes manufactured by executives who deliberately sabotage safety protocols to save money and maintained by other executives who deliberately avoid maintenance to save money.
Anything to boost those quarterly earnings and cash in those fat paychecks, bonuses and stock option. If a plane crashes, the stockholders take it on the financial chin and some low level employees will be blamed. The "pump and dump," only paid for in human lives. That's American business today.
You or anyone near get blue ice?
Not that I know of. Someday
𝘕𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘢𝘯 𝘍-16 𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦.
Living on base, and working mids is even worse. You’d crawl into bed after a long shift just in time to hear the damn things taking off for the first go of the day.
They landed okay. So flaps must be optional equipment obviously employed by
the airlines to raise the prices of fares. Unnecessary.
/sarc
They landed okay. So flaps must be optional equipment obviously employed by
the airlines to raise the prices of fares. Unnecessary.
/sarc
Probablee just a loose screw somewhere.
Finders keepers.
It’s so weird how all these airline mishaps began right after trumps inauguration.
Last week I believe I rode on my last airplane for my lifetime. It wasn’t a pleasant trip.Ill focus more on local friends and family.
Boeing 737: The Ford Pinto of airliners.
This is most likely about poor maintenance.
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