Boeing 767 cargo plane drops landing gear door onto Seattle suburb

A BOEING 767 cargo plane lost a landing gear door mid-flight falling from the sky into the driveway of a house in a suburban road in Seattle suburb of Kent, Washington.

According to eye witnesses the aircraft seemed to be vibrating above before it ejected the door which then fell and skittered on the ground 30 feet before stopping.

The incident happened at 7am on a school day without any casualties, according to local resident Maureen Rinabarger: "We were grateful no children were hurt and it didn't hit a house or a car."

The owner of the house where the door, almost the size of a fridge, finally stopped had minutes earlier pulled out from the driveway, only to return after the crash to see an aircraft part sitting in the driveway.

The Federal Aviation Administration are yet to give details of the aircraft, but a recent report from a morning television show CBS This Morning attributed the cargo plane to ABX Air, flying under the DHL logo en route from Cincinnati for Seattle's Boeing field.