Flying Flap: Part of Delta Boeing Plane Wing Found In North Carolina Driveway

One of these days, this writer will regale you all with her Delta Airlines drama. But she's grateful that this didn't happen to her, even though it seems everyone is okay:

Delta Flight 3247, a Boeing 737, lost a part of a wing flap while flying over North Carolina. It landed on a driveway in Raleigh pic.twitter.com/AvfXoLbRYL
— BNO News Live (@BNODesk) July 2, 2025

Yikes.

Here's more from the New York Post:

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 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 infrastructure 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.

Imagine being that homeowner.

Flying Flap: Part of Delta Boeing Plane Wing Found In North Carolina Driveway

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