Heavens! Where did THAT come from?
THIS is the moment a chunk of ice hurtled from the sky and smashed into a suburban road, narrowly missing a street cleaner.
CCTV footage showed the block breaking into shards that were hurled over the street towards Serhiy Myeshkov.
He was working under a busy flight path to Heathrow in the west London suburb of Kew Gardens, leading to speculation that the ice block – thought to have weighed around 50lb – fell from a plane.
Mr Myeshkov said he heard a loud boom as the ice hit the road on Wednesday morning. ‘It fell from a plane or from the sky – it all happened very quickly,’ he added. ‘I wasn’t scared, but it could kill you. I feel lucky.’
Shopkeeper Pavi Singh, 22, who saw the ice hit the ground, said: ‘The noise was like a car crash, a massive bang. It was bigger than a shoebox and shattered into little pieces like glass.’
Mos Sayid, whose taxi firm International Chauffeurs caught the incident on CCTV, said: ‘A minute before or a minute after, someone could have been hit and killed.’
Around 30 ice falls are reported annually to the Civil Aviation Authority, which said: ‘Although ice does very occasionally fall from aircraft, it can also be the result of meteorological phenomena.’
Ice forming on planes at high altitudes can break off in warmer air.