An American Airlines plane that experienced engine failure may have dropped parts on a Queens neighborhood, CBS2 HD reports.
Flight 309, an MD 80, took off from LaGuardia Airport en route to Chicago's O'Hare International just after 8 a.m. Wednesday morning.
According to the Federal Aviation Administration, the plane's number two engine failed some 20 minutes after taking off from New York City.
The plane was diverted to John F. Kennedy Airport where it landed safely.
Some metal fragments apparently from the plane's engine reportedly landed on the rooftop of a warehouse at 31-99 123rd Street in the College Point section of Queens. Investigators collected the metal fragments and placed them in a box to send to the FAA for investigation.
"We heard a very, very loud sonic boom or explosion, followed immediately thereafter of about 30 to 45 seconds of debris raining down, everybody was quite alarmed. We immediately suspected it was a problem with a plane," one witness at the warehouse told CBS 2.
There are no reports of injuries aboard the plane nor on the ground where the scraps landed.
The cause of the mishap is being investigated by the FAA.
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