Ice chunk crashes into family home

A basketball-sized chunk of ice crashed through the roof of a home after apparently falling from an aeroplane passing overhead.

Danelle Hagan and her 9-year-old daughter were at home in Brush, about 145km northeast of Denver, Colorado, when they heard the kitchen ceiling come crashing down.

They were not injured.

Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Mike Fergus said the ice appeared to be "Rime ice," which can build up on the outside of a plane's fuselage when it flies through cold and wet air.