Cliff JudyFear not, U2 fans. Your lead singer is alive and well despite part of his plane falling off Wednesday mid-flight. But to hear it from sources of the outlet that broke the story, it was a close call.
Daily Mail's characteristically wordy headline read, "Bono cheats death after private jet door falls off: U2 singer 'extremely lucky' after plane's tailgate becomes detached during flight to Berlin with four friends."
A source close to the singer, whose aviation expertise at this moment is unknown, told the outlet, "He was extremely lucky, the plane could have gone down." And after hearing a thud mid-flight, "When they landed they were horrified to learn that the compartment at the rear of the plane had completely detached."
The singer had hopped a flight from Dublin to Berlin to accept a German music award.
The private plane was a Learjet, but with Daily Mail breaking the story Wednesday and the incident happening earlier in the day, no, there do not appear to be any grainy, far off shots of a damaged plane sitting on a tarmac.
And while surely terrifying, some officials at the airport where he landed have already downplayed the singer's apparent brush with "disaster" or "catastrophe."
An airport spokesman told German outlet B.Z. Berlin, "To our knowledge, there was no danger of falling."
So, good news, everyone! U2 will get to make that trip to the U.S. next week where the band is scheduled to play a set every night of the week for Jimmy Fallon on the "Tonight Show."
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