Delta plane wing flap lands in homeowner's driveway
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A Delta Air Lines flight landed safely after part of its wing flap fell off and landed on the driveway of a North Carolina home.

The incident happened early Wednesday morning, the airline confirmed to Fox News Digital. The Boeing 737-900ER was traveling from Atlanta to Raleigh-Durham with six crew members and 109 passengers on board.

“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,” a Delta spokesperson said. 

The part separated from the Boeing plane operating as Flight 3247 before it landed at 1:15 a.m. local time on July 2. 

Workers remove the wing flap that fell off of a Boeing 737-900 from a driveway in North Carolina.

Workers remove the wing flap that fell off of a Boeing 737-900. The wing flap landed on a driveway in North Carolina on July 2, 2025. (WRAL)

Raleigh police told local TV station WRAL that no injuries or property damage were reported as a result of the incident. 

A woman speaks to a reporter a wing flap that fell off of a Boeing 737-900 was found in a North Carolina driveway.

A woman speaks to a reporter a wing flap that fell off of a Boeing 737-900 was found in a North Carolina driveway on July 2, 2025. (WRAL)

“It’s amazing when you consider it’s such a dense neighborhood and people are out all the time,” Susan Reed, who works near the location where the part crashed down, told WRAL. “We really dodged a bullet on this one. Let’s just hope it doesn’t happen again.”

Fox News Digital’s Bonny Chu contributed to this report. 

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