On Wednesday night in Portland, Maine, a car was damaged by a 35-pound pipe. The incident occurred at the Casco Bay Line parking lot, where the pipe shattered the vehicle's rear window and dented its frame. Police initially suggested it might have fallen from an aircraft. However, the Federal Aviation Administration later determined that the object was actually a tiedown cleat from a tugboat, following an inspection at the ferry terminal.
Initially, police suspected the damage stemmed from a falling airplane part due to the vehicle's location, but investigations revealed it was from a tugboat.
The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed the object responsible for damaging the car was not an aircraft component, but rather a tiedown cleat from a tugboat.
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