A possible calamity was avoided after a Delta plane's wing hit the runway as it was coming in for a landing. The incident happened just after 10 p.m. Sunday, March 16 at LaGuardia Airport in Queens.

The wing of a Delta plane struck the runway as it was coming in for a landing at LaGuardia Airport on Sunday evening, ...

The wing of a Delta plane struck the runway as it was coming into land at LaGuardia Airport on Sunday evening, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The left wing of a Delta plane ...

and the plane landed safely after the left wing struck the runway surface at around 10:10 p.m., the Federal Aviation Administration and an airport spokesperson said Monday. Delta Connection Flight ...

About 200 passengers aboard a Delta Air Lines plane evacuated using an emergency slide as the aircraft caught on fire on a ...

An alert warning system on the Delta ... along the runway”. The report also noted that wing the detached from the fuselage, releasing a cloud of jet fuel that caught fire. The plane then slid ...

A Delta Air Lines ... the report says. The plane veered off the runway into a snow-covered grass area and came to a rest on an intersecting runway. The right wing that had come off the plane ...

TORONTO (AP) — A Delta Air Lines ... Emergency personnel reached the plane within a few minutes and Aitken said the response “went as planned.” He said “the runway was dry and there ...