BRUSH, Colo. -
A basketball-sized chunk of ice, presumably from an aircraft, crashed through the roof of a home in Morgan County, narrowly missing a mother and her nine-year-old daughter.
The incident happened around 10 a.m. Saturday morning as Danielle Hagan and her daughter were sitting in a room adjacent to their kitchen.
"It sounded like an explosion," Hagan said. "I look over to my left and my kitchen looks like a bomb's gone off. I've got debris flying at me...boards, nails. Luckily, nothing hit us."
Since there was no hail at the time and no ice on trees, local fire officials say the only possibility is that the ice came from a plane thousands of feet above the home, which is under a known flight path.
"If somebody had been in the kitchen they wouldn't have survived from the impact," Paul Acosta with the Brush Fire Department said.
The impact rendered the 50-year-old home uninhabitable since the ice crashed through support beams and kicked-loose asbestos.
In the meantime, Danielle has been forced to move into her mother's home.
"I'm trying to focus on the fact that nobody was harmed because it's just hugely stressful all the way around," Hagan said. "One way or another we'll get it all worked out."
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the incident.
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The incident happened around 10 a.m. Saturday morning as Danielle Hagan and her daughter were sitting in a room adjacent to their kitchen.
"It sounded like an explosion," Hagan said. "I look over to my left and my kitchen looks like a bomb's gone off. I've got debris flying at me...boards, nails. Luckily, nothing hit us."
Since there was no hail at the time and no ice on trees, local fire officials say the only possibility is that the ice came from a plane thousands of feet above the home, which is under a known flight path.
"If somebody had been in the kitchen they wouldn't have survived from the impact," Paul Acosta with the Brush Fire Department said.
The impact rendered the 50-year-old home uninhabitable since the ice crashed through support beams and kicked-loose asbestos.
In the meantime, Danielle has been forced to move into her mother's home.
"I'm trying to focus on the fact that nobody was harmed because it's just hugely stressful all the way around," Hagan said. "One way or another we'll get it all worked out."
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the incident.
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