Maine man narrowly missed by large metal object that likely fell from a plane

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AUGUSTA — Maine Capitol Police screener Craig Donahue was getting back from his lunch break when he heard a “loud thud” and the sound of steel rolling.

Fortunate for Donahue, he narrowly missed being hit Friday afternoon by a big “sleeve-like object” that seemingly fell from a aircraft close to the Maine State Home.

“It most likely would have left a fairly good mark,” Donahue mentioned Tuesday morning on CNN’s “New Day.” “It was perhaps seven to eight kilos falling from the sky, unannounced, and it could have been a fairly good wake-up name.”

The cylinder was about seven inches by 5 inches with grease throughout it, in response to Donahue, and he wasn’t the one one who noticed its dismount from the sky.

Two different folks noticed the item fall round 12:30 p.m. EDT close to the capitol constructing in Augusta, in response to a Maine Division of Public Security information launch. No accidents had been reported.

The thing “landed at a excessive velocity, roughly six to eight ft” from Donahue, he mentioned.

When he picked it up, he thought: “Holy cow, this factor is heavy,” he mentioned on “New Day.”

He took the cylinder inside and reported the incident to the Augusta State Airport and the Federal Aviation Administration, he mentioned.

The Maine Division of Public Security mentioned in a information launch that the FAA is “making an attempt to find the supply of the half which is probably going from a big airliner on a world route.”

In a press release to CNN on Tuesday morning, an FAA spokesperson mentioned, “The FAA is conscious of the report and is investigating.”

Contributing: Jennifer Feldman, Alisha Ebrahimji and Jennifer Henderson

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