A cross-country United Airlines flight made an emergency landing Monday due its wing sustaining damage.

United flight 354, traveling from San Francisco to Boston, was diverted to Denver.

One of the jetliner’s passengers captured video of the damage.

“All of a sudden I heard this violent vibration like I had never heard before,” Kevin Clarke, one of the passengers, said in an interview.

From the Associated Press:

Clarke said one of the pilots walked down the aisle of the main cabin, then returned to the cockpit and announced that the plane had minor damage to its right wing and the flight would be diverted to Denver.

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Clarke opened his window shade and took video of the damage that was later broadcast on Boston 25 News. The 67-year-old, a ski-race announcer from Maine, was comforted that the pilot believed the plane was good enough to fly, but he began having doubts when the jet hit turbulence.

Clark began checking the wing repeatedly, until he decided that he just couldn’t look anymore.

“I was just going to pray that we made it to the other side of the turbulence,” he said.

United said the Boeing 757-200 carrying 165 passengers landed in Denver to “address an issue with the slat” on one of its wings. Slats are moveable panels on the front or leading edge of the wing and are used during takeoffs and landings. Chicago-based United did not say what caused the damage which left pieces of the slat torn away.

United Airlines said the flight landed safely, and another plane took the passengers to Boston, arriving early Tuesday morning.

“A flight from San Francisco International Airport had to make an emergency landing in Denver due to problems with the wing. One of the passengers took video where you can see damage to a part of a flap on the wing with a chunk apparently ripped off,” ABC7 Eyewitness News wrote.

Denver7 reports:

The flight landed safely at DIA at 5:21 p.m. Monday, Stein confirmed. The airline arranged for another plane to take the passengers on to Boston as originally planned, according to Stein’s reporting. It was scheduled to arrive there at 1:24 a.m. Eastern Standard Time Tuesday.

Before passengers were transferred to a new plane, they were traveling on a Boeing 757-200 jet.

This is not the first issue Boeing has had it with some of its planes this year.

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A Boeing 737 Max 9 jet lost its door plug mid-flight, leaving a gaping hole in a plane full of passengers forced to make an emergency landing. The Max 9 model planes were grounded.

A Boeing cargo plane operated by Atlas Air also caught fire mid-flight last month, prompting an emergency landing in Miami.

ABC World News Tonight provided additional coverage (starting at 4:40):

 

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