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Federal Express Plane Parts Land On Homes
UPDATED: 6:35 pm PDT May 10, 2005
DANVILLE -- Moments after a Federal Express MD-11 cargo jet took off from Oakland International Airport, it lost at least three parts of one of its engines, dropping them on three homes in the Danville area.
The plane -- with its crew unaware of any problem with the craft -- went on and landed safely at the Dallas-Fort Worth airport. The MD-11 is equipped with three engines -- one mounted in its tail.
No one was hurt and there was no serious damage to the homes. But residents were annoyed by the early morning collection process.
"At 3:30 in the morning, my wife wakes me up and the door bell is ringing, ringing, ringing," said Jim Moura, who had a part land on his roof. "What the heck is going? I go to the door and the guy says: 'We're back again...to get the thing off the roof.' I said I don't want anyone up there at that time of the night. But he says they are already up there."
Moura said when the part hit his roof it sounded like "a truck hitting the house."
Residents -- who live east of Interstate Highway 680 on Turrini Circle, Betten Court and Adobe Drive -- also said they were told not to take pictures of the parts by the Danville Fire Department.
A Federal Express spokesman said the jet took off from its Oakland sub-hub at about 8:10 p.m. Monday. It landed in Texas at 1:30 a.m. local time.
The painted blue parts from the plane's fuselage were pieces of aluminum measuring from five-by-seven feet to two-by-four feet and fell in two backyards and on one homeowner's roof. They were collected by FedEx employees and taken to their Oakland facility. The FAA is investigating the incident.
FedEx spokesman Anthony Hicks told the Associated Press that the company's investigation of the incident was still underway.
"The plane made it safely to Dallas from Oakland," Hicks said. "It's unusual. Something like that rarely happens."
Federal Express Plane Parts Land On Homes
UPDATED: 6:35 pm PDT May 10, 2005
DANVILLE -- Moments after a Federal Express MD-11 cargo jet took off from Oakland International Airport, it lost at least three parts of one of its engines, dropping them on three homes in the Danville area.
The plane -- with its crew unaware of any problem with the craft -- went on and landed safely at the Dallas-Fort Worth airport. The MD-11 is equipped with three engines -- one mounted in its tail.
No one was hurt and there was no serious damage to the homes. But residents were annoyed by the early morning collection process.
"At 3:30 in the morning, my wife wakes me up and the door bell is ringing, ringing, ringing," said Jim Moura, who had a part land on his roof. "What the heck is going? I go to the door and the guy says: 'We're back again...to get the thing off the roof.' I said I don't want anyone up there at that time of the night. But he says they are already up there."
Moura said when the part hit his roof it sounded like "a truck hitting the house."
Residents -- who live east of Interstate Highway 680 on Turrini Circle, Betten Court and Adobe Drive -- also said they were told not to take pictures of the parts by the Danville Fire Department.
A Federal Express spokesman said the jet took off from its Oakland sub-hub at about 8:10 p.m. Monday. It landed in Texas at 1:30 a.m. local time.
The painted blue parts from the plane's fuselage were pieces of aluminum measuring from five-by-seven feet to two-by-four feet and fell in two backyards and on one homeowner's roof. They were collected by FedEx employees and taken to their Oakland facility. The FAA is investigating the incident.
FedEx spokesman Anthony Hicks told the Associated Press that the company's investigation of the incident was still underway.
"The plane made it safely to Dallas from Oakland," Hicks said. "It's unusual. Something like that rarely happens."
