Residents in a Seattle, Washington neighborhood got quite the shock when they discovered a plane door lying in their streets.
On Friday morning, witnesses noticed a refrigerator sized chunk of metal fall from the sky and crash down into the neighborhood of Kent. The metal crashed down and then skipped 30 feet before coming to a stop.
"We heard a big crash, like a slap, slap," Maureen Rinabarger told KOMO, 'And it did sound like a big large piece of metal."
The Federal Aviation Administration, who arrived at the scene to investigate, said that the metal piece was the landing gear door of a Boeing 767.
Residents said that they noticed a cargo jet flying unusually low moments before the door came crashing down, but it is still not clear where it came from. No one in the neighborhood was hurt and no houses or cars were damaged.
U.S. Marine Commander, Col. Stephen Ganyard told ABC that air pressure may have caused the door to fall off.
"What could have happened in this instance is, as the aircraft was coming in to land in Seattle, the force of the air on the landing gear door could have torn off an already weakened gear door that may have then lead to this piece of metal going into the residential area," he said.
This isn't the first time a part of a plane has landed in a strange place. In May, another plane door landed in a Miami golf course.
This is not the first instance of plane parts being stripped from aircrafts and falling from the sky.
The residents of Kent were lucky that the place door didn't cause any damage. In 2009, several houses and cars were damaged in Manaus, Brazil when parts of a plane fell from a cargo jet.
"This us something that happens quite frequently, especially as airplanes get older and things tend to break," Ganyard told ABC.
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