Dropping from above

The “sky is falling” might have been more than a cliché for a Georgia homeowner.

The owner of the house said he and his wife returned home to find pictures knocked to the floor and cracks in a hallway's drywall. He decided to crawl up into the attic and there he found a hole about the size of a loaf of bread in his roof, with a tire peeking through.

The explanation of how a tire could have fallen into his house with such force to cause this much damage was a mystery until the FAA gave them the explanation.

Federal Aviation Administration officials told the home owner that the wheel plummeted to earth from a helicopter owned by a landscaping company. The wheel is part of equipment used to haul the helicopter around the landing pad during maintenance but should have been removed before flight.

The Walton County Sheriff's Office traced serial numbers on the tire to the landscaping company and the FAA is still investigating the incident.

There was no indication of whose insurance was going to pick up the tab.