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Delta Air Lines Boeing 737-900ER Wing Flap Believed To Have Fallen Onto Home Driveway In Raleigh

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A homeowner in Raleigh, North Carolina, saw an unexpected sight on the morning of Wednesday, July 2. Local news station WRAL reported that police responded to a 911 call at 08:30 about a large piece of debris blocking a driveway, which was later confirmed to be a portion of an aircraft's flap. It is believed that this originated from a Delta Boeing 737-900ER registered as N940DU when operating DL3247 from Atlanta to Raleigh-Durham. While the news release states that the flight landed at… (simpleflying.com) More...

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CHRISMORGAN
CHRIS MORGAN 12
Possibly a maintenance problem, but unfortunately anything falling off a Boeing aircraft, regardless of the cause, does nothing to help their quality control image or their recovery.

Luckily nobody was hit by the falling debris and for that we must be thankful.
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sparkie624
sparkie624 2
It will be Maintenance... The only question is has the Airline Removed and Reinstalled/Replaced or was this actually installed at the factory... That will be the main thing to determine and I am sure the FAA is already looking at the Log Book(s)
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RidgewoodNJ
Barry Morse 5
If it's maintenance, what else did they touch recently?
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sparkie624
sparkie624 2
Maintenance is a Broad Statement. That question is pretty much wide open. The Maintenance could have just been a Wheel & Oil Check, A Line Check and not having really been in Maintenance. Hangar Visits are usually where more work gets done because somethings just needs to be done under a Roof... For Example (Jacking, Sheet Metal Work, Electrical Work are all suitable depending on what really needs to be done!)
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joelwiley
joel wiley 1
"...believed to have fallen..." what, have they discounted that it may have jumped? It was down at the time. Such journalism....
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dkenna
dkenna 3
I would have dragged it into my garage and mounted it on the wall with the road signs and license plates. Finders keepers rules state this is the appropriate course of action.
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ewrcap
ewrcap 3
Not true. Actual rules are you go to jail for interfering with a federal investigation.
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jeffinsydney
jeff slack -1
The USA is now lawless, a 34-time felon in the White House and detention camps where unbadged masked men put people who are kidnapped off the streets......... why worry about the laws?

Sorry to make this political but the rest of the world is in horror as you rebuild Nazi Germany in the USA and yet make comments about what is against the law.

Yes, go ahead, pick it up and put it on the wall in the garage because it just does not matter anymore.
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MichaelDealey
Michael Dealey -1
Apparently you're not sorry for making it political or you would have refrained from typing it. If you want to talk about rebuilding Nazi Germany, look no further than Germany itself. People are now being thrown in jail for having the wrong opinion about their government and there are serious attempts to outright ban opposition political parties. Sounds familiar, doesn't it?

Your own government didn't fare too much better during Covid. Your citizens were being detained in actual camps for not wearing a face diaper or for refusing to take a slow-acting lethal injection. Some of your citizens were pelted with rubber bullets just for being outside.

Nobody in America is being "kidnapped off the streets". Criminals are being detained and sent back to their country. I've never heard of kidnappers who abduct people just to send them home.

By the way, Trump hasn't been convicted of anything because no sentencing has occurred (and it never will). Might want to study our laws and constitution before repeating left-wing propaganda.
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yungkdc
Dan Yungk 4
Donald Trump was found guilty on of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records on 2024-05-30, and was sentenced on 2025-01-10. As of this writing, he is a convicted felon.
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Nooge
Nooge 1
Your own government didn't fare too much better during Covid. Your citizens were being detained in actual camps for not wearing a face diaper or for refusing to take a slow-acting lethal injection.

By the way, Trump was the POSOTUS a convicted COVIDIOT


Standing off to the side, Trump clasped his hands in front of his stomach, nodded and looked out into the room of gathered reporters. When Bryan was done, he strode slowly back to the lectern.

“A question that probably some of you are thinking of if you’re totally into that world,” Trump began, clearly thinking the question himself, “So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous — whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light — and I think you said that that hasn’t been checked, but you’re going to test it. And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way, and I think you said you’re going to test that, too. It sounds interesting. And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning. Because you see it gets in the lungs, and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it would be interesting to check that.”
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Bayouflier
Bayouflier 2
"this doesn't appear to have had a major impact on Delta's operations." Who writes this crap.
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sparkie624
sparkie624 0
Wow... that is not good! Will be interesting to see what the NTSB Determines the cause... Don't want to prejudge on this one.. Need a lot more facts!
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rgraham11
Robert Graham -2
Qualify control issue?
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ewrcap
ewrcap 3
There are many of them flying and most are over 20 years old. At this point, you have to look at MX.
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sparkie624
sparkie624 1
It depends on Which Serial Number it is... If it is one of the new ones, then it will be on Boeing. If it has had the Flap disassembled as a part of Maintenance, then it will go back to the Company. That is information that we do not have... At least yet!
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TorstenHoff
Torsten Hoff 8
The registration is in the article, the airframe is from 2012. It would have been subject to multiple C checks.

https://www.airfleets.net/ficheapp/plane-b737ng-38723.htm
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