If it’s Boeing ....
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.
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.
” 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.
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.
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.
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.......
To my way of thinking, that Tar Heel was lucky!
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.
Probablee just a loose screw somewhere.
Boeing 737: The Ford Pinto of airliners.
Thanks. I’ve been meaning to add a directory for ‘Why I Don’t Fly’ - So my twin can see why I’m not leaving the Clearwater, FL to fly to AZ. He can come here anytime however he gets here.
I’ll have to search around for examples I’ve already saved but no worries I’ll find them.
;-)
Things fall off of aircraft fairly often. In fact there’s an acronym for it. TFOA. I remember having to file a report when it happened. Its usually something small like an access door..