"This is what I saw when I looked out my window when we are on approach to land"

[blambert]

Anybody know any more about this? It was posted on Reddit with no more details.

http://i.imgur.com/ERcB9jd.jpg

[treadigraph]

"Some of Our Aircraft is Missing"

[onetrack]

I'm afraid I'm having trouble relating anything in that photo to any recognisable aircraft component/s.
Just because the pic has got some blue sky and clouds in it doesn't mean it was taken up in the air from an aircraft window.
The material in the ragged-looking panel doesn't resemble the construction material of any aircraft part. The spot welds along the joined edge are not aircraft construction style.
Even the "window frame" in the lower left corner doesn't resemble any regular aircraft window frame.
I'm hazarding an educated guess this photo is a scam photo. Possibly some ground-located item, not even an aviation-related component, photographed up close, with the photo possibly inverted or rotated to make it look like something that it's not.

I've pulled up all the similar photos on the 'net - and the original photo description (when moused over) is identical to this following webpage .. thus making me suspect the photo is of a ground-based item around this frozen tundra campsite.

Untitled Document (http://www.wmrs.edu/news/winter%20trip%20to%20BAR%203-14-09/default.htm)

[KBPsen]

You haven't been around aircraft much, have you?

The damaged part appears to be the trailing edge of a slat. The visible silver part is the honeycomb part of the composite structure. A construction that has been widely used for many, many years in aviation.

The 'spot welds' are of course rivets.

[Avionker]

The material in the ragged-looking panel doesn't resemble the construction material of any aircraft part. The spot welds along the joined edge are not aircraft construction style.

You have absolutely no knowledge of aircraft construction do you?

Aluminium honeycomb composite panel. Trailing edge flap at a guess, looks like a flap track fairing in the upper right corner.

It's a bit of a mess for sure.

[aquadraco]

The incident happened to an American Airlines 757 in July 2010. See here for details:- Passenger Gets Photos of Wing Damage on American Airlines Flight 1990 | AirlineReporter.com | Blogging on the airline business (http://www.airlinereporter.com/2010/07/passenger-gets-photos-of-wing-damage-on-american-airlines-flight-1990/)