Pictured: An American Airlines 757 landing at LAX
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What: American Airlines Boeing 757 en route from San Diego to Dallas
Where: Los Angeles International Airport
When: Friday August 21
Who: 188 passengers and 6 crew
Why: While en route to Dallas, passengers observed pieces of the right wing falling off. The crew declared an emergency and landed at LAX. Maintenance crews discovered that “delamination of a seal.”
Passengers were able to board another plane bound to arrive at their destination on midnight Friday.
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