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11-06-09, 11:20 AM
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| | | Air Plane Part Falls From Sky
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ROOSEVELT, N.Y. — An airplane part fell from the sky and landed on the front lawn of a home on Long Island, New York. Authorities are looking into how it happened.
Residents called police Thursday evening to report a suspicious object on the home's lawn in Roosevelt.
Officers found a 3-foot-by-4-foot cone-shaped piece of metal. Investigators determined it had fallen from a commercial airplane.
Police didn't immediately say which airline owned the part.
No one was injured.
| Airplane Part Falls From Sky, Lands on New York Lawn - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News - FOXNews.com
Wow, that really makes you want to fly again. NOT!! |
11-06-09, 11:46 AM
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11-06-09, 11:49 AM
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Originally Posted by jikelly  Wow, that really makes you want to fly again. NOT!! | Have you considered amateur night at the local comedy club? |
11-06-09, 01:32 PM
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I know what part that is. I bet its a cap for those pontoon looking things on the wings of the smaller commercial planes that house the hydraulic rams for the flaps and alerons. 
Last time I was on a plane I watched a chunk of wing get ripped off in flight. I pulled a stewrdess aside and told her. I knew it wasnt a big deal and knew if I just hit the chime and then spoke to her past the two people sitting next to me then it would have caused a panik and I wanted to sleep. |
11-06-09, 08:58 PM
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Great. more **** to think about. i just booked a flight to nebraska.  |
11-06-09, 10:19 PM
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11-06-09, 11:08 PM
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Just a fairing. Basically what Laser described. No biggie. It's happened a few times in the past. I'd be worried if they found an engine or something. |
11-07-09, 09:12 AM
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Originally Posted by jikelly
Wow, that really makes you want to fly again. NOT!!
| This made me think of Borat. |
11-07-09, 01:11 PM
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Originally Posted by COramprat Just a fairing. Basically what Laser described. No biggie. It's happened a few times in the past. I'd be worried if they found an engine or something. | It's just a canoe, or part of one, or just a fairing. I've seen some 'fairings' wondered just how the hell the engineer expected them to stay attached.
No big deal unless it hits something on hte way down.
OTOH, the last person of record who touched it is probably in a world of hurt. Even if they did everything 'right'. |
11-07-09, 04:03 PM
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11-07-09, 10:27 PM
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Originally Posted by COramprat Just a fairing. Basically what Laser described. No biggie. It's happened a few times in the past. I'd be worried if they found an engine or something. | Now that you mention engines................................There have been at least two engines fall off B-52's flying around Shreveport La. One landed in a corn field. Can't say where the other landed. The Buffs are based at Barkdale AFB across the river from S'port. I load fuel at a tank farm that's directly in the landing pattern of the 52's. Sure is comforting to know that a 50+ year old, half million pound bomber is flying at minimum airspeed over my head, while loading at that rack.   |
11-08-09, 06:36 PM
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Better to have the part fall into the yard while the plane stays in the air than to have the air plane fall in the yard while the part .... nevermind. |
11-08-09, 07:25 PM
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Originally Posted by 32ValveRom Better to have the part fall into the yard while the plane stays in the air than to have the air plane fall in the yard while the part .... nevermind. |   What goes up, must come down.  |
11-09-09, 06:21 PM
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Just be glad it wasn't a blue-green ice ball. |
11-09-09, 08:37 PM
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Originally Posted by COramprat Just be glad it wasn't a blue-green ice ball. |  Unfortunatly I know what that is too.  |
11-10-09, 08:44 AM
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We lost a piece of engine cowling from a KC-135 over Indianapolis once back in the late 80s when I was stationed at Grissom AFB. I met the plane on landing & debriefed the aircrew. | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes | Rate This Thread |  Linear Mode | | 
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