Jet tire crashes through kitchen ceiling of
Montreal home
CTV Montreal: Jet wheel tears through
roofThe wheel of a jet tore through the roof of a home in St.
Laurent near Trudeau Airport Wednesday morning. Residents in a Quebec
neighbourhood are used to planes flying by, but not debris falling from the sky.
Denise Roberts reports. Residents at a home outside Montreal got quite
the scare after a Falcon 10 jet tire falls on on a roof. Residents of a
Montreal apartment building say they were shocked when a jet tire fell from the
sky, crashing through the roof and leaving a hole in one woman's kitchen
ceiling.
Hole in ceiling from tire
People living in the building, located
in the city's Saint-Laurent neighbourhood, said they heard a loud thud just
before 2 a.m.
A woman living on the top floor found a hole in
her roof and a jet tire in her apartment. At roughly 5 a.m., she went to inform
her landlord.
"This morning my tenant came home to an
apartment with a hole in her kitchen ceiling; she could see through the kitchen
into the sky," the landlord, who did not want to be identified, told CTV
Montreal. "She came down at 5 a.m., rang our doorbell panicking and we went
up to investigate," she added. The woman was stunned that a plane tire had
crashed into the building.
"I think it's ridiculous ... I mean there's got
to be quality checks, someone that makes sure everything is attached and
attached well. How can a tire just fall off a plane?"
She added that incident has her questioning the
safety of her neighbourhood. The area sees high levels of air traffic overhead
because it is on the flight path of Pierre Elliott Trudeau airport.
"It is a very residential area, there's a lot
of children here and it makes me angry that something like this happened at
all," the woman said.
Jet wheel falls through roof
The Transportation Safety Board said
Wednesday that the wheel belonged to a Falcon 10 jet, which landed safely at the
airport at approximately 2 a.m. Wednesday.
The TSB said the plane was operated by Club
Jet. It plans to send an investigator on Thursday. Club Jet had no comment as
of Wednesday evening.
Alan De Sousa, the mayor of Saint-Laurent, said
he is following the incident and wants to ensure that residents are safe.
"I'm very thankful there's no injury or any
loss of life, but our public security can't just depend on luck," said De Sousa.
"I think there are responsibilities that have to be assumed."
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