Passenger sees "wing coming apart" on United flight from San Francisco to Boston; flight forced to land in Denver
Passenger sees "wing coming apart" on United flight from San Francisco to Boston; flight forced to land in Denver
A United Airlines flight to Boston was diverted to Denver because of an issue with the plane's wing.
The episode of "The Twilight Zone" with Shatner and the goblin thing on the wing, but the goblin is replaced with the word "Capitalism"...
To my untrained eye, yeah that's kinda sketch, the skin is peeling off. Definitely get mad at the mantanance people. But it also doesn't look dangerous on its own; it's just a covering for the actual wing.
What you’re seeing is the flap, used sometimes during lift-off, but most commonly to apply drag for a slower landing. It’s not ideal, but flap-less landings are done and trained for. This plane was delivered in 1994, and they’ve been slowly phasing them out.
I imagine that could affect aerodynamics of the plane and ability of the pilots to control it when the outside of the wing peels off like that
This is the best summary I could come up with:
BOSTON - A United Airlines flight from San Francisco to Boston was diverted to Denver on Monday because of an issue with the plane's wing - and a worried passenger on board captured the apparent problem on video.
"Just about to land in Denver with the wing coming apart on the plane," Kevin Clarke says in a video shared with CBS News.
"Sitting right on the wing and the noise after reaching altitude was much louder than normal.
The passengers were put on a different plane and landed in Boston early Tuesday morning.
Boeing has been under scrutiny since a door panel on a different kind of aircraft, a 737 Max 9, blew off during an Alaska Airlines flight in January.
Earlier this month, the head of the FAA pledged to use more people to monitor aircraft manufacturing and hold Boeing accountable for any safety rule violations.
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