Almost ten months after an elderly tribal woman suffered a shoulder injury with a football-sized iced sewerage material that fell on her from the sky in Sagar district of Madhya Pradesh, a Delhi based aviation investigator B K Srivastava claims to have identified the commercial plane which 'leaked' it. Besides Sagar, Srivastava has also zeroed in on two other commercial planes that apparently which dropped huge ice chunks while flying over state's Harda district on April 5 and in West Bengal on October 13 this year where villagers took 'selfies' with it.
He has pled director general of civil aviation (DGCA) to either investigate these mid-air drops or share radar images with him to corroborate his own findings. Srivastava has sent a letter to the DGCA referring incidents reported from Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal asking them to get it investigated by air safety office. DGCA's air safety headquarters is located in Kolkata.
Initially, he had a doubt that these ice chunks could be a 'megacryometeor' - extremely large atmospheric ice conglomerations that fall under blue-sky atmospheric conditions but he is sure that they were 'blue Ice' - a term used in aviation context for frozen sewage material leaked mid-flight from toilets of aircraft's on the flight route.
"I am confident about my findings, but this has to be ascertained by the regulatory body. By going through geographical coordinates and radar images we can pin point the commercial air craft which dropped the ice-chunks lavatory materials while flying overhead," claims Srivastava who has done extensive research on mysterious ice ball dropping from sky. Experts say waste leaking out of a lavatory is in a liquid form, but gets frozen because of low temperatures at height at which airplanes fly. There is a fall of roughly 2 degrees for every 1,000-foot elevation. However, chances of such a chunk of ice reaching the ground is remote although not unheard of.
20/10/16 P Naveen/The Times Of India
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He has pled director general of civil aviation (DGCA) to either investigate these mid-air drops or share radar images with him to corroborate his own findings. Srivastava has sent a letter to the DGCA referring incidents reported from Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal asking them to get it investigated by air safety office. DGCA's air safety headquarters is located in Kolkata.
Initially, he had a doubt that these ice chunks could be a 'megacryometeor' - extremely large atmospheric ice conglomerations that fall under blue-sky atmospheric conditions but he is sure that they were 'blue Ice' - a term used in aviation context for frozen sewage material leaked mid-flight from toilets of aircraft's on the flight route.
"I am confident about my findings, but this has to be ascertained by the regulatory body. By going through geographical coordinates and radar images we can pin point the commercial air craft which dropped the ice-chunks lavatory materials while flying overhead," claims Srivastava who has done extensive research on mysterious ice ball dropping from sky. Experts say waste leaking out of a lavatory is in a liquid form, but gets frozen because of low temperatures at height at which airplanes fly. There is a fall of roughly 2 degrees for every 1,000-foot elevation. However, chances of such a chunk of ice reaching the ground is remote although not unheard of.
20/10/16 P Naveen/The Times Of India
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