Piece of fighter jet plummets from sky and lands 'yards' from woman's house

manchestereveningnews.co.uk:

Grandmother Deborah Colman has spoken out about her horror after a piece of fighter jet plummeted from the sky, and landed mere 'yards' from her home.

The object, identified as a pylon that mounts missiles or fuel tanks, fell from a Eurofighter Typhoon flying near her home in Haisthorpe, East Yorkshire.

The jet had departed RAF Coningsby, located 66 miles away, on January 17. An investigation into the event has now commenced, the air force said.

Deborah said: "It’s absolutely terrifying. If that had been a few hundred yards towards us it could have hit the house or killed someone, or landed on the main road in front." “There’s a train line that goes past the village a bit further away. “It could have hit anything, it’s terrifying when you think about it.” After hearing reports of an object falling from the sky followed by a ‘loud bang’, Deborah and her husband Shaun went to examine the site.