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For its part, the Transportation Safety Board said any potential investigation into the incident would be conducted by Transport Canada, the federal department in charge of setting transportation policies.

Transport Canada confirmed that it hadn’t been contacted, saying in a statement that departmental officials investigate every incident that is reported to them.

“If it is determined (in such an investigation) that the ice came from an aircraft, the department will try to identify the carrier to ensure the problem is rectified,” the statement said.

Photo by Courtesy of Michael Caccavo

Pearson Airport’s online plane tracker shows a Boeing 767-300 travelling from Las Vegas is estimated to have flown over the Caccavos’ neighbourhood at 6:29 a.m. on Wednesday at an altitude of nearly 6,000 feet. Two planes flying from Vegas landed at Pearson shortly after: a WestJet flight around 6:53 a.m. and an Air Canada flight around 6:56 a.m.

A WestJet spokesperson wrote in an email that the airline only flies Boeing 767-300 planes on European trips, adding, “We are glad to hear that the family involved in the incident are safe. WestJet has not heard from the TSB and we have had no reported incidents.”

Air Canada, meantime, said maintenance checks revealed there were no issues with any plane the company had in the air on Wednesday.

“I can also tell you that after reviewing our operations from January 9, we determined our aircraft were a considerable distance from the location of this incident at the time it reportedly occurred, according to established flight data,” a spokesperson said via email.

Speaking over the phone from home on Thursday afternoon, Carmela said she’d felt shaky for most of the previous day, but had since grown thankful for her good fortune. She and her husband still had to wash their clothes and scrub clean the closet and bedroom floor, but it was all a matter of placing the ordeal in proper perspective.

If anything, Tony said, they now have a reason to figure out which items in the closet they don’t really need.

“I have a second chance in my life,” Carmela said. “You never know, right? It could have been worse.”

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