New York: A New Jersey family narrowly escaped being crushed when a large chunk of ice, apparently from a plane, crashed through the roof of their suburban home in Paterson. The giant fall occurred last Wednesday around 9:30 p.m., just 12 feet from where the Gomez family was seated at their backyard table.
“Out of nowhere, you just hear a hollow sound coming down, and honestly, we didn’t think anything of it, and then you just hear a big DOOOOSH!,” Sabrina Gomez, one of the family members, described the scene. Security footage from the backyard shows the family jumping up from their seats when they heard the ice crash to the ground.
“It was big stones… I guess it was a big square. When it came down, it smashed everything,” Paul Gomez said.
According to the family, the house sits directly underneath several flight paths. “When we look up, it’s basically like a plane flying by,” said Sabrina Gomez.
After the incident, the family hurried to the front of their house and filmed the pieces of ice scattered across the driveway. “Honestly, it was a bit terrifying, but thank God it didn’t hit anyone and instead hit the ground. It hit the roof, thank God,” Sabrina Gomez said.
The family submitted a claim to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), requesting an investigation into the ice they suspect fell from an overhead plane.
This chilling incident occurred just weeks after a chunk of ice fell from an airplane in Utah, killing a family’s pet goat on May 6.
Earlier last year, another similar incident occurred when a chunk of ice weighing between 15 and 20 pounds struck a home in Massachusetts
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