Large ice chunk falls from sky, damages Massachusetts home

This was actually an icebreaker.

A big chunk of ice — estimated to be 15 to twenty kilos — fell from the sky and hit a Massachusetts residence Sunday night time, damaging its roof.

Householders Jeff Ilg and his spouse, Amelia Rainville, imagine that the piece of ice — which didn’t hurt the couple or their two kids — fell from an airplane touring to Boston Logan Worldwide Airport.

Their Shirley, Massachusetts, house is about 50 miles northeast of Logan, one of many busiest airports within the nation. One in every of Logan’s flight paths crosses instantly above.

“We heard an explosion, mainly,” Ilg recalled. “The loudest pop, bang I’ve ever heard.”

Instantly following that alarming sound, they heard particles rolling down the roof onto a decrease part, and assumed, at first, it had been struck by lightning.

When the pair ventured exterior to see what occurred, Ilg noticed the enormous block of ice on their again step, and particles scattered all through the yard and roof.

“I had no thought what this was,” he mentioned.

“It was laborious to wrap my head round it. There wasn’t a cloud within the sky,” Ilg told Boston 25 News.

Rainville known as the police after which Ilg discovered the outlet within the roof.

“Certain sufficient it was in there and it was huge,” he mentioned.

The spot the place the ice slammed into the roof had injury about 18 inches to 2 toes in diameter, however contained in the roof, the injury was even better.

They collected 10 kilos of ice in baggage, and there was nonetheless much more to collect.

The Federal Aviation Administration mentioned it’s investigating.

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