When you stop to think about it, the traveling public tends to take jetways -- those covered enclosures that carry us from the terminal to our aircraft in air-conditioned comfort and protection from the elements -- for granted.

Well, one jetway at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport was evidently fed up with everyone walking all over it this week... and decided to vent its aggravations on an unsuspecting MD-88 parked at the Delta gate Monday.

The FAA Preliminary Report (below) states the MD-88 receive serious injuries in the attack, although no one else was apparently injured and no passengers were onboard at the time.

Aero-News would like to remind our readers to be on the lookout for these jetways on the edge. You never know when they're going to snap.

**   Report created 3/30/2006   Record 6

IDENTIFICATION
  Regis#: 977DL        Make/Model: MD80      Description: MD-81/82/83/87/88
  Date: 03/27/2006     Time: 2200

  Event Type: Incident   Highest Injury: None     Mid Air: N    Missing: N
  Damage: Unknown

LOCATION
  City: CHARLOTTE   State: NC   Country: US

DESCRIPTION
  N977DL, A DELTA AIRLINES BOEING MCDONNELL DOUGLAS MD88 ACFT, WAS STRUCK
  WHEN A JETWAY HIT ITS SIDE AND PUNCTURED A HOLE IN THE SKIN, NO INJURIES
  REPORTED, CHARLOTTE, NC

INJURY DATA      Total Fatal:   0
                 # Crew:   0     Fat:   0     Ser:   0     Min:   0     Unk:   
                 # Pass:   0     Fat:   0     Ser:   0     Min:   0     Unk:   
                 # Grnd:         Fat:   0     Ser:   0     Min:   0     Unk:   

WEATHER: NOT REPORTED

OTHER DATA

  Departed:                             Dep Date:    Dep. Time:     
  Destination:                          Flt Plan:              Wx Briefing: 
  Last Radio Cont: 
  Last Clearance: 

  FAA FSDO: CHARLOTTE, NC  (SO33)                 Entry date: 03/28/2006

FMI: www.faa.gov, www.delta.com