747 SAN-DFW emergency landing at LAX

[benh57]

Pieces of lamination falling off aircraft?

SD PLane Makes Emergency Landing At LAX - San Diego News Story - KGTV San Diego (http://www.10news.com/news/20500730/detail.html)

Plane makes safe emergency landing at LAX - San Jose Mercury News (http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_13180372?nclick_check=1)

"Passenger Jim Borta told KCBS-TV that during takeoff, passengers saw pieces of lamination flying off the wing and heard an unusual noise as the plane climbed."

[raffele]

Seems to be confusion over the aircraft type - first article says 747, the second says 757. Which was it?

[ExXB]

AA doesn't operate the B747 - it was likely the 757, but knowing the media it could have been an ATR72!

From a thread on Airliners.net it definitely was a B757.