Jody Victor Horizons Travel: Ever find anything interesting in your back  yard? A southeastern Wisconsin family found what appeared to be a piece of a Northwest Airlines plane in their backyard. "I was coming out with the laundry basket to hang my laundry, and I noticed ... a large, large piece of metal in my yard," Judy St. Clair told WISC-TV in Madison. "I thought, 'Oh, my goodness. That looks like an airplane wing.' But I thought, 'How can that be?"' The two-foot-long chunk of metal tore through the branches of the ash tree in her backyard. St. Clair said she turned it over to McFarland authorities, who alerted the Federal Aviation Administration. WISC-TV confirmed with Northwest Airlines that after Flight 1449 from Detroit landed in Madison at 9:21 a.m. Wednesday, an inspection revealed a missing flap. The DC-9's return flight to Detroit was grounded.

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