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Old 9th Sep 2012, 22:50
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767 landing gear door lands in Seattle Neighbourhood

Another "out of the sky" event for media fodder:

The Federal Aviation Administration confirms that a piece of metal that fell to the ground in a Kent, Wash., neighborhood was part of a Boeing 767’s landing gear door.

Witnesses say the refrigerator-size panel hit the ground and skipped about 30 feet before stopping in a street Friday morning. No one in the neighborhood about 15 miles south of Seattle was hurt.
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