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Passenger sees "wing coming apart" on United flight from San Francisco to Boston; flight forced to land in Denver (www.cbsnews.com)

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[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 3 points 10 months ago (10 children)

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.

[–] PaupersSerenade@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] FirstCircle@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It's not a flap (back of the wing), it's a slat (front of the wing), says so right in TFA.

[–] PaupersSerenade@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

Ah my bad, the linked article didn’t specify and I wrongly assumed the angle the pic was taken at.

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