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!
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