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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

TORONTO — (AP) — The alert system on a Delta ... and the wing detached from the fuselage, releasing a cloud of jet fuel, which caught fire as the plane slid along the runway.