The Region - News from Aug. 22, 1985

A chunk of ice, estimated at 10 to 20 pounds, tore through the roof of Willie and Claudette Walker’s Kellogg Park Drive home in Pomona, ripping a wide gash in the living room ceiling and hurtling shards of ice everywhere. The couple were awakened by the “large boom.” “It was like something had crashed,” Claudette Walker said later. “I was sure it was my sliding door and that somebody was (breaking in). I thought it was the (Valley) Intruder, the killer.” Authorities theorize that the block of ice fell from a plane en route to Los Angeles International Airport. A spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration said it is possible that the ice could have broken loose from the exterior of a plane.