Posted on 02/18/2009 5:46:27 PM PST by JoeProBono
The Federal Aviation Administration says a piece of hot metal that crashed through the roof of a Jersey City business did not come from an airplane.FAA spokeswoman Arlene Salac says investigators examined the metal and determined it is made of cast iron, which is not used in airplanes. She says it's up to local authorities to determine where the object came from.Owner Al Smith was fork-lifting a sofa onto a wooden storage platform around 10 a.m. at his moving company when he heard a sound he thought was a bomb.A piece of warm metal the size of a brick came crashing through the roof just steps from where he was standing. It splintered a wooden beam and crashed into a shelf.Smith tells WCBS radio that no one was injured. He plans buy a lottery ticket, saying it's his lucky day.He says the metal is about the size of a brick and came crashing through the roof around 10 a.m.Officials at the scene also confirmed to WCBS radio that the metal was too hot to touch for about 30 minutes after crashing through the roof.
Any pictures of the thing?
Brimstone???
Wow!
Sounds more like a meteorite....
Part of an old Soviet satellite.
Its a meteorite
Look here...something else fell from the sky...
That’s what I was thinking.
They got the wings and tail off really fast
Mayor: mysterious object came from wood chipper
February 18, 2009
JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) _ The mysterious falling object in Jersey City appears to have come from a wood chipper.
Mayor Jerramiah Healy says the chunk of hot metal came from nearby _ not from an plane as once suspected.
Al Smith was fork-lifting a sofa onto a wooden storage platform around 9:30 a.m. in his moving company's warehouse when he heard a sound he thought was a bomb.
A piece of warm metal the size of a brick came crashing through the roof just steps from where he was standing. It splintered a wooden beam and crashed into a shelf.
The Federal Aviation Administration looked at the object and determined it wasn't from an airplane.
Smith was not hurt but says he was shaken up by the incident. And he feels so lucky it missed him that his next step was to buy a lottery ticket.
B. Not much visible damage.
C. The plane has no wings! (I have photos of new 737s on their way to Seattle by rail in Nebraska.)
(I have photos of new 737s on their way to Seattle by rail in Nebraska.)
Post them!
They are buried in digital backup somewhere. The fuselages are in some kind of green primer/protection and there are additional train cars with wings/tails/additional parts. I'll look for them.
Looks like the wings were cut off.
Now that isn’t something you see everyday.
I’d guess that the “doors” are still at the bottom of the river.
Looks like they are taking their half out of the middle. Just remember to never park close to the corner. ;-)
 A set of five 737 Next Generation fuselages approaches Boeing's Renton plant, where 737s are assembled for flight test. The fuselages are built in Wichita, Kansas and shipped to Renton by rail to Seattle. Local trains like the one pictured bring them from Seattle to Renton, but usually only one or two at a time. A set of five fuselages is unusual. Taken by listorama |
Toilet seat off the MIR?
See post 15
Actually that was a joke. I take it you aren’t a DLM fan.
This is much better than my farther away shots. Parts look the same though.
“...the metal was too hot to touch for about 30 minutes after crashing through the roof.”
Cast iron?
These two data points lead me to speculate it could only have come from the Russian satellite that collided with Iridium 33 last week.
Only Russians use such heavy duty material in space. And, only a fall from space could have heated it to that degree.
I hate posting such conclusions when a simple explanation has already been posted!
Thursday, February 19, 2009
By CHARLES HACK
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER
For a few hours yesterday an 8-pound chunk of metal that crashed through the roof of a Jersey City warehouse was an unidentified flying object.
Theories abounded - perhaps it was piece of a plane, or maybe debris from the recent collision in space between a U.S. satellite and a defunct Russian satellite.
But Jersey City police solved the case shortly after noon.
The metal chunk - which took 30 minutes to cool after it crashed through the roof of Al Smith Moving at 33 Pacific Ave. at 9:26 a.m. - turned out to be a missing tooth of a gigantic mulching machine located roughly three football fields away at Reliable Wood Products at 1 Caven Point Ave., police spokesman Lt. Edgar Martinez said.
The brick-shaped block, which measured 6 inches by 4 inches by 2 inches and had two hexagonal holes on the top, cut through the roof, splintered a beam and fell about 10 feet from Al Smith, one of two brothers who own the moving and office furniture company.
Forklifting a sofa on a rack at the time, Smith said he heard a loud crash and saw the object crash onto shelving.
“It sounded like a big explosion. And I didn’t know what it was, but I see the hole that was in the roof. When I went up on the rack where it landed it was a block of steel,” Smith said. “It was an odd thing to happen and I didn’t know what to do so I called the police.”
Smith added he planned to buy a lottery ticket since it must have been his lucky day.
The tooth came from a trailer-sized grinder that is used to chop wood down to chip-size pieces, said Reliable Wood Products Vice President Eugene Ciarkowski.
Ciarkowski, who said nothing similar has ever happened at his facility before, said the operator did not notice because of the din created by the powerful diesel engine and grinding wood.
“This is a freak event and it is not something you can anticipate,” Ciarkowski said.
The machine, he said, has been shut down pending further inspection to make sure it is safe for operations.
“The good news is that no one was injured,” said Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah T. Healy. “It did blast through the roof very close to one of the (owners), but it was his lucky day and nothing happened to him.”
cool
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