[meteorite-list] Refrigerator-Sized Chunk of Ice Crushes Carin Florida

From: Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_webb_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:35:39 -0600
Message-ID: <000d01c743d4$46df8550$7ce68c46_at_ATARIENGINE>

Hi

    On Jan, 12, 2007, a dead stowaway from Senegal was
found in a wheelwell at Atlanta. In Jan., 2006, a frozen
stowaway fell on a gas station in suburban London. In
June, 2005, a stowaway leg and torso fell on Long Island,
damaging a home. Between 1996 and 2001, three dead
stowaways fell on Long Island.
    The earliest case in the US date back to the 1970's
when a dead man was found on a Long Island lawn,
showing no apparent cause of death nor any physical
trauma. However, the man's body was deeply depressed
into the ground. He was eventually identified as Spanish
and it was (correctly) surmised that he had stowed away
in a nosewheel well, asphixiated at altitude, frozen quite
solid, and had been released when the landing wheel
was lowered.
    The frequency of such incidents is increasing.

Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Darren Garrison" <cynapse at charter.net>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 8:51 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Refrigerator-Sized Chunk of Ice Crushes Carin
Florida


It could have been worse-- they could have been hit by a stowawayarite:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/29/los.angeles.airport.body.ap/index.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/01/12/national/main2355967.shtml

http://www.aero-news.net/news/commair.cfm?ContentBlockID=f2357ea5-d79d-4104-b242-cae3e1a3b349&Dynamic=1
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