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I give up. This board is too hard to understand.
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Up in the air.... it's a bird, a plane, ugh! it's part of some guys spine!

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsA...451136_RTRIDST_0_ODD-SECURITY-STOWAWAY-DC.XML

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pieces of a man's body fell from the wheel well of a South African Airways passenger plane bound for John F. Kennedy International Airport Tuesday and landed in the yard of a suburban home, police said.

A U.S. customs inspector discovered the rest of the man's body at 7:30 a.m. (1130 GMT) after Flight 203 landed in New York from Johannesburg, South Africa, said a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which oversees area airports.

A South African Airways spokeswoman said it appeared to have been a stowaway attempt. She said the plane had stopped in Dakar, Senegal, on its way to New York.

The pilot reported feeling vibrations at takeoff but conducted a check and found nothing amiss, said Nassau County, New York, police detective Kevin Smith.

During the flight, Smith said the pilot felt more "vibrating sensations and heard pounding, but nothing appeared wrong with the plane."

The body parts, which included the right leg, part of the spine and a hip, struck a garage roof of the home in South Floral Park, New York, before landing in the backyard, police said.
 
So that's what happened to PinBall!!

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Happens all the time..........

Luckless birds, wayward engine pieces and frozen aircraft stowaways are plummeting from the sky.
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But there's more than ice and engine parts falling from the skies. In August, the right wheel fell off a Blue Panorama Airlines 737. The plane, which had just departed an airport in Spain, was forced to make an unscheduled landing amid emergency vehicles lining the runway in Rome.
A similar incident happened near Los Angeles in March. An American Airlines 757 lost its right nose gear, but managed to land safely with 105 passengers on board. Because the 757 has two wheels attached to the nose gear, it was able to land on just one. The wayward wheel descended on South Gate, a small community about 10 miles east of Los Angeles International Airport, landing in a gutter next to the sign for an Albertson's supermarket. It then bounced diagonally across the street, into the parking lot of St. Helen's Roman Catholic Church, stopping right next to a woman who was entering the church. "Maybe she prayed a little harder," the Rev. John Provenza told the Associated Press. "By the grace of God, it could have really been bad."
The grace of God became apparent again exactly 15 days later, when a landing gear door fell off a Delta Airlines 727. Shortly after Flight 1827 took off from Boston's Logan International Airport, the 30-pound, 3-by-6-foot metal door crashed into an empty street in a quiet residential neighborhood.
But last month, God's grace was not in evidence. That's when the body of a Russian man fell from the wheel well of a KLM plane headed to Amsterdam from Moscow. The man was already dead when he fell, and his body was found in a water-filled ditch a few miles from the Amsterdam Airport. The body of another Russian man was discovered in the wheel well of the same aircraft. Both men were rape suspects who were apparently trying to flee police.
Because airplane wheel wells are not heated, stowaways often freeze to death from the subzero climate at 30,000 feet. But a few souls have beaten the odds. In August, mechanics found a man in the wheel well of an Air France 747 that had just arrived in L.A. after a seven-and-a-half-hour flight from Tahiti. Miraculously, the man survived after being rushed to the hospital, where he was treated for hypothermia.
What's even more astounding about the man's dramatic voyage is that he managed not to fall out of the wheel well.
 
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The grace of God became apparent again exactly 15 days later, when a landing gear door fell off a Delta Airlines 727. Shortly after Flight 1827 took off from Boston's Logan International Airport, the 30-pound, 3-by-6-foot metal door crashed into an empty street in a quiet residential neighborhood.
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How would you like to be somebody who has a plane door land on them from 10,000 feet? I can hear it now, from heaven.......
"Well, I played the lottery every week for 25 years, and never won anything. No, I guess I wasn't lucky enough to win the lottery, BUT I WAS LUCKY ENOUGH TO HAVE A 30 POUND AIRPLANE DOOR FALL ON ME FROM THE SKY!
 
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