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Saturday, May 22, 2010

Sonobuoy drops through Mandarin home, no one injured

Sonobuoy drops through Mandarin homeA sonar buoy from a P-3 Orion on a routine training flight fell through the roof of a Mandarin house Friday morning, landing next to a bed that had recently been vacated.

The crew with Patrol Squadron 45 had just taken off from Jacksonville Naval Air Station when the 3-foot-long device fell from the plane about 500 to 600 feet in the air.

No one was injured in the 9:15 a.m. incident. But it certainly startled Marwan Saman, who was sleeping about 50 feet away.

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