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"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 ...

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Delta sent ABC11 this statement about the wing flap “After the aircraft landed safely, it was observed that a portion of the left wing’s trailing edge flap was not in place.

The wing flap was collected from the driveway around 12:30 Wednesday afternoon. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is now leading the investigation to determine how it came off the aircraft.

An airplane wing part landed in a Raleigh driveway near Banbury Road and Wade Ave. In a statement Wednesday afternoon, the FAA said Delta Air Lines reported a missing part of a wing flap on a ...

The agency is working to confirm the flap found in the driveway belongs to that plane. The flight arrived at RDU around 1:15 a.m. on Wednesday. The flap is believed to have belonged to a Boeing 737.

"After the aircraft landed safely, it was observed that a portion of the left wing's trailing edge flap was not in place," Delta Airlines tells ABC11.

Full FAA statement “Delta Air Lines informed the FAA that an inspection of Flight 3247, after it landed safely at Raleigh-Durham International Airport, revealed part of a wing flap was missing.