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GURGAON, India: Authorities suspect a chunk of ice which landed on a village in India's northern state of Haryana is frozen human waste leaked from an aircraft overhead. According to the BBC, the ball of ice which weighed 10 to 12kg, fell on Fazlipur Badli village last Saturday (Jan 20), startling locals. The Times of India reported that some villagers thought it was a "priceless celestial object" and kept pieces of it in the fridge. Senior official from Gurgaon Vivek Kalia, who inspected the ice ball, told the Times of India: "The heavy mass of ice, which is not associated with any type of rainy weather, suggests there is a possibility it might have fallen as frozen toilet water coming out from some aircraft lavatory. "There are a number of air routes in this area." Kalia also stressed that the projectile was "definitely not a meteorological phenomenon" and has sent it to a forensic lab for further testing. According to the BBC, the frozen human waste that falls off airplane toilets is often called "blue ice", because of the chemicals added to the toilets to reduce odour and break down the waste. Frozen human waste "very occasionally" forms around the overflow outlets for aircraft toilets, before falling to earth, the BBC added. Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/chunk-of-suspected-frozen-airline-poo-lands-on-village-in-india-9886206 So this is the so called holy shit.

This is certainly not something you see everyday. A light plane lands on a road in USA, caught on car camera.

THE STATE News Agency of North Korea has confirmed today that the country has become the first in the world to ever land a man on the sun. It reported that astronaut Hung Il Gong left for the sun on a specially designed rocket ship at approximately 3am this morning. Hung, who traveled alone, reached his destination some four hours later, landing his craft on the far side of the lonely star. “We are very delighted to announce a successful mission to put a man on the sun.” a North Korean central news anchor man said on a live broadcast earlier. “North Korea has beaten every other country in the world to the sun. Hung Il Gong is a hero and deserves a hero’s welcome when he returns home later this evening.” The specially trained astronaut is expected to return back to earth at 9pm tonight, where he will meet his uncle and supreme leader Kim Jong-un. It is understood that the 17-year-old ‘space explorer’ traveled at night to avoid being engulfed by the suns rays, and that this genius approach has brought the soviet state to the top of the global space rankings. While on the sun, Mr. Hung collected sun spot samples to bring back to his supreme leader as a present. The 18 hour mission is already being called the ‘greatest human achievement of our time’ by the North Korean central news agency. http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2014/01/21/north-korea-lands-first-ever-man-on-the-sun-confirms-central-news-agency/

Residents of Yishun Street 81 spotted a 5kg potted plant lodged in the windscreen of a Toyota sedan that was parked in the Housing Board estate on Sunday. The police said yesterday that they received a call about the incident at Block 871 on Sunday at 2.23pm. The case has been classified as a rash act and investigations are ongoing. The potted plant apparently fell from the ninth floor of the HDB block. Source: http://www.straitstimes.com/news/singapore/courts-crime/story/5kg-potted-plant-lands-parked-car-20140603

Is it just me or do we keep getting near misses news from Qantas?? I'm personally not ever flying this airline again. Qantas plane lands after cockpit fire AFP | Thu, Mar 24 2011 There were 'no ill effects or injuries' experienced by passengers and crew on the Manila-Sydney flight. Qantas plane lands after cockpit fire The plane was en route from Manila to Sydney on Wednesday afternoon when an electrical fault caused smoke and small flames near the left-hand windscreen of the cockpit. The pilots used an extinguisher to douse the fire and diverted to Cairns, in tropical north Queensland. "There were no ill effects or injuries experienced by any of the 147 passengers or 11 crew, and all passengers were accommodated on other domestic services to complete their journey to Sydney," Qantas said in a statement. A passenger told The Sydney Morning Herald that the incident was "truly scary". "There was a burning smell in the cabin that was very strong, and then the captain came over the loudspeaker and explained an electrical problem meant there was a serious risk of fire," he said. "Later he explained flames had come back for a second time and they'd had to use a fire extinguisher in the cockpit." Qantas has endured a string of dramatic incidents in the past few months. Last November it temporarily suspended flights of its Airbus A380 superjumbos after an engine on one exploded after taking off from Singapore, damaging the plane. Then in January, a flight bound for New York made an unscheduled stop in Fiji after the Boeing 747 developed a problem with a fuel valve supplying one of its engines. Soon after, another Boeing 747 suffered mid-air mechanical trouble soon after taking off from Bangkok and was forced to return to the Thai capital.

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Someone must have been was looking after this flight, thankfully the pilots landed the plane safely and there were no injuries. Must have been a hellish experience for the passengers. ----------------------------------------------- Source: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp.../362710/1/.html MANILA - A Qantas Boeing 747 flying to Melbourne made an emergency landing in Manila on Friday after a dramatic mid-air rupture that left a "gaping hole" in its fuselage, officials and passengers said. Stunned passengers reported how the jumbo, which had taken off from London and stopped in Hong Kong, plunged 20,000 feet (6,000 metres) in what one said was an "absolutely terrifying" ordeal. An urgent investigation is underway into what punched a hole of about three metres (10 feet) in diameter into the fuselage near the right wing. A Qantas spokeswoman said the plane, carrying 346 passengers and 19 crew, was now undergoing an inspection on the ground in Manila, where luggage could be clearly seen jutting out of the hole. "There was a terrific boom, and bits of wood and debris just flew forward into first (class) and the oxygen masks dropped down," June Kane, a passenger from Melbourne, told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. "We were told that one of the rear doors, a hole had blown into it, but I've since looked at the plane and there's a gigantic gaping hole in the plane." "It was absolutely terrifying, but I have to say everyone was very calm," she added, speaking from the Philippine capital. Qantas chief executive officer Geoff Dixon said initial inspections showed the aircraft had sustained a hole in its fuselage, and it was being inspected by engineers. He said the flight crew performed emergency procedures after oxygen masks were deployed and there were no reports of any injuries. In a statement, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau said the plane had been flying at 29,000 feet when the crew were forced into an emergency descent after a section of the fuselage separated and resulted in rapid decompression of the cabin. It said the crew descended the aircraft to 10,000 feet "in accordance with established procedures" and diverted the plane safely to Manila. The Bureau said it was sending four investigators to Manila to assist local authorities with the investigation. Qantas flight QF30, which took off from Hong Kong at 9:00am (0100 GMT), had been due to arrive in Melbourne at 1145 GMT, according to the Qantas website. Passenger June Kane said the problem had appeared to centre on the baggage compartment of the plane. "I'm looking at the plane now and just forward of the wing, there's a gaping hole from the wing to the underbody," she said. "It's about two metres by four metres and there's baggage hanging out so you assume that there's a few bags that may have gone missing. Passengers praised the crew for landing the plane safely. "We heard a very large bang, the oxygen masks came out. But the crew was very calm and everything was fine," said Phil Rescall, a 40-year-old man from England travelling to Australia for work. "The shock came when many got off the plane and saw the hole," he told AFP. "You see the hole and you realise we were very lucky. "Some people were crying, some people were pretty shaken when they saw the hole." "The crew were terrific, they did a great job," another passenger, Brendan McClements, said. "Everyone gave them a round of applause as we landed." Qantas said the 747-400 was not the one that was used to fly Pope Benedict XVI out of Australia earlier this month after his visit to Sydney. - AFP/jk/ir