A military helicopter door fell from the sky and crashed into a heavily populated Dublin suburb with an "almighty thud" as youths out playing miraculously escaped unharmed.
A witness told Dublin Live how the door plunged from the aircraft into the grounds of Moyle Park College in Clondalkin, after initially colliding with the roof of a building next door.
The gate to the secondary school was open, and youths were inside on the GAA pitches beside the school building.
Shocked onlookers screamed in horror as terrified children ran for their lives away from the falling door.
The door came down over the main centre of Clondalkin village, home to several essential service shops, including a Tesco with a packed car park, before colliding with the building.
Miraculously, nobody was injured in the incident.
"I saw something, it didn't look like it was that heavy, it was just swirling around," a source told Dublin Live.
"Then I saw, Jesus Christ it was a door!
"It was nearly over The Laurels Pub when it came off, and it landed in Moyle Park, that's how much it moved in the air.
"But Jesus, if it had landed in the car park or on Tesco... It bounced with an almighty bang when it hit the roof."
The Laurels Pub is roughly 200m away from the crash site as the crow flies, and the door fell through the sky just missing a number of open businesses - including several newsagents and takeaways as well as the local Tesco supermarket - before crash-landing just metres from where children were playing in the school grounds.
"I initially thought it went through the roof and into the building.
"I didn't know if anyone had been hurt, and I was literally in the car park in Tesco screaming across: 'Look up! Look up! Get out of there!'
"The way it was swirling, you'd never know where it would have hit. You would have been brown bread if it had have hit you."
Gardai have closed off the scene at the college.
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