Metal Falls From Sky; Smashed a Car
Postal Inspection Service photo
Here’s one news you never hear everyday: a metal falling from sky. It hit a rental car parked at a U.S. Postal Service mailing facility yesterday damaging the passenger side. However, inspectors said that if the chunk of metal came from a plane, the damage could have been worse.
The object weighs between 20 lbs – 30 lbs.
The accident occurred on County Road, one of the roads I use going to Secaucus.
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Steel object that smashed car at Postal Service lot a mystery
by Paul Koepp/The Jersey Journal
Tuesday October 21, 2008, 2:12 PMCan you identify this mysterious chunk of metal?
Authorities are still scratching their heads at the origin of the roughly 30-pound piece of steel that smashed a rental car yesterday morning in the parking lot of a U.S. Postal Service bulk mail facility on County Road in Jersey City.
Police said an Ohio man had parked the car at 7:30 a.m. yesterday and saw the damage when he returned at 9:45 a.m.
The object has been taken for analysis by the Federal Aviation Administration, Josh Shandler of the Postal Inspection Service in Newark said today.
But FAA spokeswoman Arlene Salac says that it is not an airplane part and it is “unlikely” that it fell out of a plane.
Any planes in the area at the time were at least 2,500 feet in the air, and an object falling from that height would have done much more damage, she said.
Shandler said preliminary research into a serial number on the metal hunk indicated that it could have come from a military vehicle.
News Source: nj.com
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