Matt Molnar
2008-02-21, 07:26 PM
A woman near Palm Beach International Airport who found a trailer hitch-shaped chunk of steel had smashed through her roof did what any of us would probably do: she looked up the engraved part number on Google. Turned out it was a McDonnell-Douglas jack pad, a piece that has no business being attached to an aircraft when it's in flight. 9 years ago a piece of a Continental jet's exploding engine fell onto the woman's husband's truck.
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/ ... GPART.html (http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2008/02/21/0221FALLINGPART.html)
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/ ... GPART.html (http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2008/02/21/0221FALLINGPART.html)