Damn, nice landing. Full plane too. In a message dated 10/13/2004 8:37:35 AM Central Standard Time, psa188@xxxxxxxx writes: A Northwest Airlines flight turned around partway into a flight from Minneapolis to San Francisco after part of one of the plane's wings flew off. Northwest spokesman Kurt Ebenhoch said the Boeing 757 carrying 179 passengers lost a wing slat, a moving piece on the front of the wing, during a flight Monday. Ebenhoch said the plane turned around and returned to Minneapolis, where Ebenhoch said it landed without incident. Passengers boarded a different plane and continued to San Francisco. He said the plane that lost a piece of its wing was being repaired.