forget the theoretical falling object....
 

OKAY.....now I really want to hear more about this. hahahahahahah...OMG...way too funny.
Please show me where this is documented. Thank you, i really needed a laugh

Well, in all of 2007 there was exactly 1 (one) shark attack death worldwide. I'd still like to know where you got you info from.

http://www.biologynews.net/archives/...last_year.html

I'm still waiting for the times that the pictures were snapped. Actually, this has to be a troll which has hooked all of us. This is simply a fake no matter what "whopper" says. In fact it is a whopper of a story. Good one. I'm done with this thread.

I think you are right. There can't possibly be anyone that stupid to look at what all was shown and still think it's real. It's just popcorn for me at this point.

Story falling apart...
 

When it comes right down to it, a key peice of "evidence" is missing: nothing in either photo establishes that this was, in fact, a Southwest aircraft. If there were a winglet in the shot (had one been installed on this particular airframe) or if the flap track fairings were painted characteristically red (as on the -700 series) or, in another shot, had you even held up a safety card or something on which "Southwest Airlines" was printed and captured that in your frame, it would establish more credibly than you have that this was a flight onboard a Southwest aircraft. Really, the best supposition anyone can make is that you thought you saw something falling off of an aircraft (which, I think has been proven to be some optical phenomena/photoshop trickery) and that the aircraft in the photos may or may not have been a Southwest plane.

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The OP PM'd me with the date and flight info. I looked up the aircraft and the one that the OP was on wasn't retro-fitted with winglets yet. (It is actually having winglets installed now) I did find out that the after the OP's flight the aircraft continued on without delay or incident. Had something "fallen off the wing" it would undoubdetly have been held on the ground for maintenance. It was a routine turn. This claim has been de-bunked six ways 'rill Sunday. I think this thread should be allowed to die.

It's a camera fault, or a photochop job.

I'm a professional graphic artist, and it looked unnatural right from the start. Exact same location in both frame relative to the photo edges. Easy to do in photoshop.

Also, it would have been twirling and spinning if it came off the AC. My eight years as a USAF F-111 crew chief (once upon a time) tells me that much. It would also be very blurred. No camera phone on the market has a shutter speed that high, to freeze the motion so perfectly.

Being an ex A+P mechanic I am often shocked at the material condition of some of the airplanes I've boarded. Rivets missing, cables exposed, things bent that should not be bent, etc.

If your airplane had been traveling at even 200mph you would not have gotten 2 pics from a regular camera let alone a camera on your phone. The shape of the object in each pic would be much different as a different aspect would have been shown.

This is either something on your lens or an Art Bell UFO.

I do believe that she has received the attention that she was looking for. Somebody needs help.