Ceiling panel falls off on Delta Air Lines flight from Honolulu
A Delta passenger has captured the shocking moment a panel became dislodged from the ceiling of an aircraft during a flight from Honolulu to Minneapolis.
Marissa Walton was on board the plane on Saturday when the incident occurred, with two flight attendants scrambling to place the panel back into position.
“I’m not an expert, but this doesn’t look great,” the freaked out flier captioned her clip, which has subsequently gone viral online.
Walton’s footage shows that the planed was packed with the passengers and that the panel became dislodged above one flier’s head.
Thankfully, it appears nobody was injured during the debacle.
MSN reports that the panel became dislodged during landing and the plane was a Boeing 767-300.
The Post has reached out to Delta for more information on the incident.
On social media, the footage frightened viewers, with one writing on Instagram: “I would’ve stood up a lot sooner to help because just watching this made me anxious haha.”
Meanwhile, other pundits made jokes about the fact that the aircraft was manufactured by Boeing, who have been in the headlines for a series of mechanical failures in recent months.
“Boeing’s new Jigsaw-style game where passengers have to put together the airplane while it’s at altitude before it crashes,” one quipped.
Boeing has recently been plagued by safety concerns that began Jan. 5 after a door panel blew off a Boeing 737 MAX 9 jet during a flight from Oregon to California. According to the National Transportation Safety Board, the plane — which was operated by Alaska Airlines — appeared to be missing four key bolts.
Disaster struck again a week after the initial incident when a Boeing plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Japan due to a crack in the cockpit window.
A Boeing 757 lost its front tire as the aircraft was preparing to depart for an international flight in late January. At Atlanta International Airport, a Delta flight bound for Bogota, Colombia, was taxiing across the runway into takeoff position when another plane alerted the control tower that something was amiss.
Later, a UK passenger was alarmed after noticing pieces of tape on the exterior of a Boeing 787 during a flight to India, as seen in shocking photos.
A United Airlines Boeing 777-300 aircraft suffered a midair fuel leak and was forced to make an emergency landing Monday, March 11, marking the fifth incident the airline reported in a little over a week.