A woman has a £12k hole in her roof caused by a block of ice - which may have fallen from a landing plane.<br /><br />Dr Carla George, 45, was on a work call when she heard a massive bang last week (12/9).<br /><br />She thought some boxes must have fallen in the attic at her home in Banbury, Oxon.<br /><br />But when she went to investigate she realised she could see blue sky - and found a large block of ice on the floor.<br /><br />Dr Carla, a field researcher in criminology who recently completed a PhD, called the fire brigade.<br /><br />She claims a firefighter told her it was likely caused by ice falling from a plane on its way into Heathrow.<br /><br />She has been quoted £12k to fix the roof, which will be covered by her home insurance.<br /><br />Dr Carla, who lives alone, said: "I was working in my office room and I heard a loud bang.<br /><br />"It's used as a storage room and I thought it was boxes but I saw the door open and the ceiling completely apart.<br /><br />"I went up to the attic and saw ice everywhere and I was confused where it had come from - it was like something from a movie.<br /><br />"I was in shock. My neighbour rang the doorbell and said, 'Do you know there's a hole in the roof?'. It was so unusual.<br /><br />"I thought it was some sort of explosion when I got up there."<br /><br />Despite being told that the most probable cause of the damage was falling debris from a plane, Dr Carla says she didn't hear anything that day.<br /><br />She said: "We do have planes flying over but I didn't hear any that day and neither did my neighbour, so that was really surprising.<br /><br />"My neighbour said that he used to work on planes and a suitcase once fell out."<br /><br />Although temporarily covered over with a tarpaulin sheet, Dr Carla's roof will need a full repair.<br /><br />She said: "The blocks of ice took a whole day to melt and then we had the insurers come round.<br /><br />"The roofers put in a temporary fix the next day and we are waiting for surveyors to asses the damage and see what can be done for the restoration work.<br /><br />"At the moment we still have the hole in the inner ceiling - you can see the lining from the outside.<br /><br />"At least it's all covered by the insurance.<br /><br />"And at least it didn't hit any other rooms and there were no injuries - just me being shocked and trying to process the whole thing!"<br /><br />Oxfordshire firefighters confirmed they were called to Dr Carla's home last week.<br /><br />They said the hole is believed to have been caused by large lump of ice which fell from the sky.<br /><br />The Civil Aviation Authority said 25 'ice fall' incidents are reported every year from 2.5million flights.<br /><br />Captain John Hutchinson, 86, is a retired Concorde pilot and aviation expert.<br /><br />He said of the possibility the damage was caused by an ice fall: "It's not the first time it's happened, that's for sure.<br /> <br />"As to why the ice falls - well you don't flush toilets overboard so to speak, so it won't be from a loo.<br /><br />"To me the most likely scenario is water in the undercarriage bay when the aircraft took off which formed into ice and would stay as a block of ice whilst cruising at 35,000ft.<br /><br />"And as the airplane came into land at 3,000 or 4,000ft, the undercarriage would be selected down and it would fall out - that would be one solution.<br /><br />"It's certainly possible that it would have been caused by a block of ice that fell off an airplane."<br /><br />John flew planes from 1955 to 1992.
