A United Airlines plane lost a part of its wing in mid-air and made an emergency landing in Denver.
Kevin Clarke, a passenger on the flight, recorded the incident on his cellphone and talked to local media about what he experienced.
The United Flight 354 departed from San Francisco and was bound for Boston, with the plane type being a Boeing 757-200, according to FOX.
Initially, Mr. Clarke thought the damage could be due to a bird strike.
“I’m like bird strike? That’s not good,” Mr. Clarke told Boston 25 News. “We take off, I heard this loud buzzing noise, and then it faded away so I didn’t think much of it, and all of a sudden the pilot is coming back, so I threw my window open, peeked out the window and the whole leading edge of the wing was destroyed.”
Mr. Clarke saw himself that the slat of the plane’s right wing had come off.
“Just about to land in Denver with the wing coming apart on the plane,” Mr. Clarke says in his video. “Came apart when we took off…
