Rough drop

Things have been dropping from the sky lately.

Last month, a TikTok video showing a row of rusted airliner seats found on the Jersey Shore went viral with 1.3 million likes.

One viewer said the seats found by Matthew Jacob were from flight TWA 800 that crashed off the coast of Long Island in 1996, the New York Post reported. Another commenter claiming to have welded the seats said it belonged to Flight TZB 900.

A detective said the seats were from a decommissioned railcar and stripped down to their metal parts for use as artificial reefs, and then they were knocked free from a reef by a storm and washed ashore, according to NYP.

Lately, a door plug of a Boeing passenger plane was found in a backyard in Portland, Oregon. It was blown off shortly after Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 took off in early January.

The plane was mid-air, 4.8 kilometers high, when the 27-kilo door plug fell, causing the plane to lose cabin pressure and forcing the pilot to make an emergency landing. No one was hurt, but the incident sparked the grounding of the airline’s fleet of Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft and an investigation into the model’s alleged faulty fuselage.

The force of the blowout sucked out a pilot headset. Two passengers’ mobile phones also fell, with one found on a roadside amazingly unbroken and still working.

Another plane door issue, this time from a Boeing 777 model, involved Air Canada. A passenger opened a cabin door and fell off the plane one week ago.

It would have been deadly for the man had he fallen mid-flight, but he suffered only minor injuries as the plane was still at the Toronto Pearson International Airport.

An airline spokesperson said that instead of going to his seat, the passenger opened the cabin door at the opposite end of the plane and fell on the tarmac, City News reported.

The incident delayed the Dubai-bound flight with 319 passengers by nearly six hours.