Plane Part Falls Through Chicago Roof

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Plane Part Falls Through Chicago Roof 

Friday Jan=

eNGINE pART?=0A=0A=0APlane Part Falls Through Chicago Roof =0A=0AFriday Jan=
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ge =0A=0AStocks Shrug Off Profit Warnings =0A=0A=0A=0ACHICAGO (AP) - A smal=
l piece of metal apparently from an aircraft crashed Friday through the roo=
f of a home near Midway Airport, authorities said. No injuries were reporte=
d, and the 16-inches-long part was taken to the airport for federal authori=
ties to examine, said Wendy Abrams, a spokeswoman for the Chicago Departmen=
t of Aviation.=0A=0AShe said the National Transportation Safety Board and t=
he Federal Aviation Administration would investigate the incident to determ=
ine what happened.=0A=0AThe homeowner, Dorothy Gohn, said she was sleeping =
about 1 a.m. Friday when a heavy thud woke her up. She saw a hole in her ce=
iling and found a piece of metal with teeth like a gear about 2 feet from t=
he foot of her bed.=0A=0A"I went to pick it up and it was really hot. You c=
ouldn't touch it. So I left it and when I finally picked it up, it had burn=
ed through my carpet, all the way to the floor," Gohn said.=0A=0AGohn calle=
d 911. She's since had a roofing company patch up the hole.

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