FAA looking into airplane part discovered in driveway of Raleigh home

Raleigh police and the Federal Aviation Administration are looking into a report of an airplane part at a home on Banbury Road.
Posted 7/2/2025, 4:11:14 PM Updated 7/2/2025, 8:10:07 PM

WEATHER ALERTS RIGHT TO YOUR

PHONE.

>> BREAKING NEWS FROM WRAL

COVERAGE. YOU CAN COUNT ON.

HOW ABOUT THIS BREAKING STORY

HERE AT 4 O'CLOCK AVIATION

OFFICIALS SAY A PLANE PART FELL

IN A RALLY DRIVEWAY LIKELY OFF

OF A COMMERCIAL DELTA FLIGHT

COMING IN FROM ATLANTA TO TAKE

A LOOK AT THE VIDEO OF THIS

PIECE THAT WAS FOUND ON BANBURY

ROAD THERE IN NORTHWEST

RALEIGH. WE HAVE WRAL'S

DESTINY. PATTERSON LIVE AT

RALEIGH, DURHAM, INTERNATIONAL

AIRPORT. AND AGAIN, THIS

AIRLINE DELTA, THEY REALIZED

THAT THIS PART WAS MISSING FROM

THE PLANE RIGHT WHEN THEY

LANDED.

>> THAT'S RIGHT, DAN, THEY

MIDST OF THIS PART. THEY

REALIZE OF HIS PART WAS MISSING

DURING AN INSPECTION OF THE

FLIGHT AFTER IT LANDED SAFELY

HERE AT RDU. AND NOW

INVESTIGATORS ARE TRYING TO

CONNECT THE DOTS AS TO WHETHER

THIS IS THE SAME PART THAT WE

SAW OUTSIDE A RALEIGH HOME THIS

MORNING.

>> IN AN UNUSUAL SIGHT THIS

MORNING IN AIRPLANE PART FOUND

IN A ROW DRIVEWAY. OFFICIALS

WITH THE FEDERAL AVIATION

ADMINISTRATION ASSESSING IT AND

ANY DAMAGE.

JAMES KRAUS HAS INVESTIGATED

MORE THAN 500 PLANE CRASHES.

HE SAYS THIS PART IS OFTEN USED

TO HELP DURING LANDING AND

TAKEOFF GOES IN AND OUT THE

BACK OF THE WEEK. THE FAA NOW

BELIEVES THIS PART COULD BELONG

TO A DELTA AIRLINES FLIGHT THAT

FLEW INTO RDU FROM ATLANTA.

QUOTE, AFTER THE AIRCRAFT

LANDED SAFELY, IT WAS OBSERVED

THAT A PORTION OF THE LEFT

WING'S TRAILING EDGE FLAP WAS

NOT IN PLACE. DELTA WROTE IN

A STATEMENT, THE AIRLINE SAYS

6 CREW MEMBERS AND 109

PASSENGERS WERE ON BOARD.

YOU CAN LAND. THIS IS AN

AIRCRAFT THAT HAS THIS.

>> COMPONENT MISSING WITH THAT

MISSING AND YOU CAN LAND

SAFELY. OFFICIALS SAY THE

FLIGHT DID LAND SAFELY AND NO

ONE ON THE GROUND WAS HURT.

IT'S

>> AMAZING. IT'S AMAZING WHEN

YOU CONSIDERED SUCH A DENSE

NEIGHBORHOOD.

AND PEOPLE ARE OUT OF THE TIME.

SUSAN REED MANAGES PROPERTIES

NEARBY. SHE SAYS SHE SPENT MUCH

OF HER MORNING TRYING TO PIECE

TOGETHER WHERE THE HEART COULD

HAVE COME FROM THERE JUST

REALLY DODGED A BULLET ON THIS

ONE.

>> AND LET'S JUST HOPE IT

DOESN'T HAPPEN AGAIN.

>> AGAIN, NO ONE WAS HURT IN

ALL OF THIS, WHICH IS IN THE

GOOD NEWS. AND DELTA AIRLINES

SAYS THAT IT'S FULLY

COOPERATING WITH THIS

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