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.