Ice falls from sky damages car - blue ice from undercarriage of jet?

[Chad]

The article calls it an 'ice meteorite', which may just be journalistic hype, and they speculate it fell from a plane and that for obvious reasons they've broken the law which would point to negligence on behalf of the airliner, although results on the ice have yet to come back. That may be so, just to log it here all the same.

It has happened before - wiki:

There were at least 27 documented incidents of blue ice impacts in the United States between 1979 and 2003.[1] These incidents typically happen under airport landing paths as the mass warms sufficiently to detach from the plane during its descent. A rare incident of falling blue ice causing damage to the roof of a home was reported on October 20, 2006 in Chino, California.[2] A similar incident was reported in Leicester, UK, in 2007.[3]

The story:

20 KG ice 'meteorite' destroys car in central Rome

Experts think the ice fell from the undercarridge of a jet. Photo: Olivier Cabaret

Published: 27 Jul 2016 12:13 GMT+02:00
Updated: 27 Jul 2016 22:13 GMT+02:00
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A gigantic ice meteorite, weighing some 20KG, fell from the skies over Rome and landed on a parked Toyota Aygo on Tuesday evening.

Fortunately, nobody was hurt in the incident, which occurred in the Monteverde area of the city, but the falling ice completely destroyed the car's windscreen dashboard, passenger seats and gearbox.

Nearby residents even reported hearing a loud explosion at around 9.15 PM which sent many out onto their balconies to investigate the source of the noise.

For the moment it is unsure where the potentially deadly iceball came from, but investigators think it may have been caused by a leaking toilet on a passing jet liner.

‘Blue ice’ is the name commonly given to a mixture of human waste and liquid disinfectant which can leak from an aircraft’s waste system in case of a malfunction. The waste water then freezes at high altitude and then falls to earth as a giant iceball.

“I went onto the balcony of my boyfriend’s house at 10 pm and noticed what I thought was a white plastic bag on the front seat of my car, which I hadn’t left there,” the Aygo’s owner, Fabiola Nacci told Rome daily, Il Messaggero.

Nacci went down to check and discovered that it had been devastated by the falling ice and was filled with shards of frozen water.

She immediately called the police, who collected samples of the ice for analysis and interviewed local residents.

If analysis proves the meteorite was indeed the frozen remnants of a leaking septic tank, the aircraft responsible could face charges over violating aircraft safety laws if it can be tracked down using flight data.

“Now I’m without a car,” Nacci lamented.

“The repairs will cost me about half of the Aygo’s current value,” she added.

Also posted in Italian here with more images: Roma, meteorite di ghiaccio sfonda un'auto, indaga la Procura: «É caduto da un aereo»

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