U2 frontman Bono experienced a scary turn of events in the early morning hours today (Nov. 13) when a door from his private jet blew off mid-flight. The "Beautiful Day" singer and the rest of the crew landed safely in Germany shortly after the incident.
Bono, along with two pilots and four other passengers, were traveling to Berlin so the singer could join his U2 bandmates at the Bambi Awards, which is the German equivalent of the Emmys, CNN reports. The plane was in the air for 11 minutes after a rear hatch on the airplane malfunctioned and a door separated from the jet. No one was injured, but the singer and other passengers lost some luggage.
"The ground crew realized the door was gone and two suitcases had fallen out," Germout Freitag, an official with the German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation, said. "Officials have not yet located the two suitcases or the hatch door, but they have been able to pinpoint the area where they are likely to have landed by the radar."
Freitag said an investigation into the incident will last six to eight weeks, but he guessed that the hatch was not closed properly because incidents like these are "not common."
It was business as usual for Bono after the debacle - he met with German Special Representative Walter Lindner to talk about the growing Ebola issue (see below).
GER Special Representative #Lindner exchanged with #Bono in Berlin about the fight against #Ebola today. @ONECampaign pic.twitter.com/GwtOdQFoGV
— GermanForeignOffice (@GermanyDiplo) November 12, 2014
U2 is set to receive the Bambi Award for Music International at the ceremony.
In case you missed it, Bono apologized for giving out his band's recent album, Songs of Innocence, for free. Then he sort of went back on that statement.
