The aircrew of UPS Airlines flight 5X-259 called the tower with slat issues on approach into Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN). Once on the ground, they discovered that two pieces of metal alloy had come off the plane as it was landing.

According to a short incident description from the Aviation Herald, the pilots landed at a higher than normal airspeed due to the slat malfunction caused by the missing panels. It's believed the parts were lost within a 10-mile radius of the airfield.

UPS’s Veteran Freighter

The jet in question is a Boeing 767-300F registered as N393UP , serial number 29228, according to Planespotters.net records. First delivered in 1998 to LAN Chile as a passenger configured 767-300, the cargo converted airliner is over 27 years old. After serving LAN Chile for

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