An investigation has been launched after part of a Delta Airlines Boeing plane came off mid-flight and landed in a person’s driveway in North Carolina. A local in the city of Raleigh phoned 911 and complained that a metal sheet was in their driveway. It was removed on Wednesday afternoon and determined to be a Boeing left wing flap from Delta Flight 3247. The flight had taken off from Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Georgia just after 11 p.m. ET on Tuesday night and landed safely at Raleigh Durham International Airport in North Carolina at approximately 1:15 a.m. “A portion of the left wing’s trailing edge flap evidently separated from the aircraft prior to its safe landing,” a Delta spokesperson told AirLive. “Delta is fully supporting retrieval efforts and will cooperate with investigations as nothing is more important than safety,” the spokesperson added in a statement to The Hill. The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the matter. There were six crew members and 109 passengers on board flight 3247, no injuries were reported. “We really dodged a bullet on this one,” one local said. Fox News reported the plane had gone through thunderstorm conditions.
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating after a wing flap from a Delta Air Lines 737 falls onto a Raleigh driveway.Around 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Raleigh police officers responded to a home on Banbury Road, near Wade Avenue, where a 911 caller reported the airplane… pic.twitter.com/I5GWqcXmyh
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