World War II veteran Robert Comito's ashes were supposed to be spread across the North Carolina sky.
Instead, WXII-TV reports the plastic box with the ashes ended up in a 5-inch crater in a Davie County yard.
Sheriff's Capt. J.D. Hartman says if the box had hit anyone on the way down, it likely would have killed them.
Comito's son says he is angry at the Collings Foundation, which was supposed to spread the ashes as part of a local airplane exhibition. He thinks what happened was disrespectful to his father's memory.
The foundation says ashes are supposed to be given to them in a cardboard box so they will disperse easily, and they would not have accepted the remains if they knew they were in a plastic box.

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