Yikes ... the sky is falling!!!!

Hi,

Beware down-coming ..... strange hail!

Ice from plane smashes house

By THE CANADIAN PRESS



February 7, 2008

CALGARY - A Calgary woman narrowly avoided getting hit by several chunks of ice that crashed through her bedroom ceiling Thursday morning, likely dropped from a passing airplane.

The city fire department says the woman was in the room and only a few steps away when debris "exploded" from the roof shortly before 9:30 a.m.

Fire crews found several chunks of ice about 15 centimetres long on the bed, along with pieces of shingles, plywood, drywall and insulation.

The best guess is the "frozen liquid" fell from a passing airplane. And fire department spokesman Jeff Budai says he can't think of anything else that would cause such damage.

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is looking into the incident and confirms that a couple of airplanes were in the area at the time.



http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNew...833096-cp.html

I think the ice bits from the sky were from a planes toilet Don't have an update on that for sure though but that's the last I heard

[Tony Smith]

There was an interesting, but possibly unrelated, story here of a family who had noticed a foul smell about the house one summer, but it went away soon enough. Some time later, a heavy downpour of rain revealed that that the leak in their roof was caused by some broken roof tiles. Upon further inspection, the rotting remains of a store-bought chicken was found. Further inquiries by police discovered a handful of similar discoveries about the neighborhood, with the culprits determined to be (presumably) teenagers launching Frozen Chickens with a long-range super slingshot, one of which had broken through the family's roof undetected while they were out!

Harsh! At least the toilet droppings were frozen and could be gotten out of the house before they started to melt and smell Unless of course some droppings are still inside the roof ...

That must have been some big chicken to break through that roof though ...

[Snowtractor]

Sorry Karmen, they would have to pee out the window of the plane to hit the ground. The waste is collected and pumped out when on the ground after landing.
Up in SMith there is a helo base right near my wife's grandpa's place. He has had clumps of dirt , a crescent wrench and a 2 pound sledge hit his roof or front porch off the skids of the helos or out of the sling loads they carry to the firebases. When they carry a sling load they are not supposed to overfly residences, but it costs money to fly around them.
Ice is still better than the odd frozen crushed body that rains down from some idiot hiding in the landing gear bays on take off. When the plane lowers its gear to prepare for landing...bombs away.
Sean

Hi Sean,

I haven't seen a story as yet that actually verifies what was in the clumps
of ice, but what you say about the toilets I thought weird too because I always
kind of assumed, without thinking about it really, that toilet waste would never be
allowed to be dropped from planes onto peoples heads LOL although this story made me wonder that IF they say its toilet droppings and that's verified, then there must have been something broken in a big/bad way ... something "broke"? LOL

When you say "collected" how is that set up? A drainage "hole" that goes directly from plane to outside the plane to be drained into a container? Or containers are "contained" within the plane and must be manually removed from the plane (like baggage) ???

Makes more sense and more probable to be muddy and or greasy clumps of dirt in ice dropping off the bottom of the plane or something.

What a thing to think about hey?

Karmen

[Snowtractor]

Not being up on all the different types of aircraft poop containment mechanisms, I would hazard a guess that it is a holding tank that is pumped off at the end of the flight by a sewage truck or vacuum hose connected to the airport. Not unlike draining a camper grey water tank. I would also imagine after being up at 35,000 ft , the tank would smell really HIGH.
Sean