Last night Sesamo had a fright and today she can't fly
I picked her up and put her back in the cage, later I checked the wings (just visually, she won't let me touch her) and she has lost ALL the yellow flight feathers on one wing. The other wing is intact.
There was no blood at all in the cage, not last night and not now.
She doesn't seem in pain, just annoyed at being in the cage while everyone else is out.
How can I keep her safe? I am afraid that she might injure herself trying to fly.

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Can she still flutter safely to the ground? If she still has enough lift left to land safely, she's okay. If she falls to the ground, you'll have to do something to protect her--she could injure herself by landing hard.

Denali had a similar fright about a year ago, where he knocked out all his flight feathers on one wing. I ended up keeping him on "house arrest" and didn't let him out of his cage until he had enough feathers in to fall safely and those feathers had enough support to not break instantly if they hit something. It took about 2 weeks, I think? It resulted in a very crabby bird, but he got over it.

I've also put thick comforters on the floor so landings are cushioned.

I wasn't able to observe her for long. She was trying to take off and panicked when she couldn't, poor thing. So I immediately toweled her and put her back in.
Tomorrow I am going to let her out and check how she lands.
If she crashes badly, she's gonna be beyond crabby! She's not used to being caged during the day.
Would it be of any use if I give a trim to the other wing? She finished molting last month, for these wings to grow back it will take forever
I can't bear the thought of keeping her caged for three months or even more.
How many feathers Denali lost? She lost all five, the longest. They are a different colour from the others, that's why I was able to see it so clearly.

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I think he lost 4 or 5, can't remember.

Trimming won't help, in the long run. Her new feathers will grow in pretty quickly, and then you'll have to clip the other side. Lost feathers grow in very quickly, especially wing feathers (at least that's how it seems!)

She's going to have one or possibly two problems. The first problem that she'll certainly have is an inability to steer, because her wings are unbalanced. The second is an inability to get enough lift to glide. If she can't steer it's not a huge problem, because she can't currently get enough lift to go fast enough to hurt herself. If she can't glide though, she could bruise or break her keelbone on a bad landing, and that is serious.

You don't have to keep her caged, just grounded. If she can play on a bed or the floor safely, that's fine--you just don't want her to fall. Denali was grounded basically because he couldn't really play on the floor and made ceaseless attempts to climb up to where the other birds were playing. He seemed a bit happier higher up in his cage, where he was at least closer to the flock. Still unhappy, but better.

Yes this is what she'd do! The others don't stay on the floor unless there's food to forage there, and she will try going after them when they fly. She expecially follows Trilly around, and Trilly, now that she's done with her eggs, flies A LOT and high.
If I see that little Sesamo crashes badly, I will put her in the big cage with one other bird to keep her company.
This evening they were all pretty sweet, she was in the small black cage and the others were all perched around her as if they were keeping her company

I'd cage her for her own safety..
At least till she is able to take off
and land well.
Birds! what would we do if we didn't have them to worry about! LOL

LOL tell me about it!

I let her out later than usual, she was behaving normally in the cage but sometimes she rotated the shoulder as if there was something bothering her.
When I opened her cage she didn't shoot herself out like a missile as usual; she climbed on top and flew like 1ft to reach the top of the highest cage, and stayed there. She is alert, yells, socialises, and I think now she understand that she can't fly well.
At bed time she even ran away from me for about 5 minutes. When she flies you can see that she has to flap a lot to stay up and the body isn't nice and straight, it's like she's flying on one side, poor girl. And the helicopter/giant duck noise!!! I forgot how noisy they are when badly clipped

The shoulder rotation she does makes me worry that maybe she has an injury, so to be completely safe I am taking her to the vet tomorrow at 5pm. It seems like one wing is slightly drooping.
Good luck to Dr Brian who will have to examine her: she is a tiny monster when cornered.

I hope everything turns out to be fine with her! You're busy enough with packing up to move, it's heroic of you to make time to take her to the vet "just in case".

I know it was a bit over-cautious, but better safe than sorry, that movement she did with her shoulder was suspect.
Anyway, good news! She doesn't have anything wrong apart from the lost feathers and the humiliation of being toweled and poked everywhere by the vet
He says that she's about to start molting. This helped in the sense that the feathers tend to be loose at molting time, so that they detached instead of breaking.

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She yelled at the dogs and tried to bite everyone, so yes she's definitely Ok

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