Plane traveling from northern Michigan to O Hare loses tire over Chicago neighborhood
By Associated Press
CHICAGO - A tire fell from a small plane near homes in a Chicago neighborhood before the plane landed safely at O’Hare International Airport.
No injuries were reported on the ground or among those on the plane, which sent up sparks on a runway as it landed Thursday evening without its left side landing gear, the Chicago Department of Aviation said.
Rose Bock said she heard a big boom in her Jefferson Park neighborhood about seven miles (11 kilometers) from the airport before the wheel was found in a neighbor’s yard.
A wheel fell off a small aircraft shortly before the plane's arrival at O'Hare International Airport Thursday evening and ended up in a nearby neighborhood, authorities said.
At approximately 6:19 p.m., O Hare operations officials were notified that the plane, which was landing at the time, was sending off a considerable amount of sparks from the landing gear on the left side, according to a statement from the Chicago Department of Aviation.
Airport workers then determined the left landing landing gear was missing.
According to the Chicago Police Department, the tire was discovered in the yard of a home in the 5500 block of West Leland Avenue. No injuries were reported there, authorities added.
Shortly before the plane landed at O Hare, one Jefferson Park resident said she heard a big boom.
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A wheel fell off a small plane bound for O’Hare International Airport Thursday and landed in the yard of a home in Jefferson Park on the Northwest Side.
The wheel “disconnected from an aircraft” and was discovered in the yard just before 7 p.m. in the 5500 block of West Leland Avenue, according to Chicago police. No injuries were reported.
The Chicago Department of Aviation said the wheel fell off Boutique Air Flight 835, which runs “an essential air service route between Chicago and Ironwood in Michigan’s upper peninsula.”
Airfield operators at O’Hare were notified of the incident when the plane, a single-engine Pilatus PC12, landed on Runway 28Center, sending sparks flying from the missing left landing gear, CDA said. None of the five passengers or two crew members on the flight were injured.
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The wheel of a small plane bound for O’Hare International Airport decided to make an unscheduled stop in a Chicago family’s backyard on Thursday.
Fortunately, the wheel which was formerly attached to a single-engine aircraft operating Boutique Air flight 835 did not inflict any injury to the residents of the Jefferson Park neighborhood where it crashed down shortly after 6 p.m.
The Boutique Air flight later landed without incident at O’Hare at approximately 6:40 p.m., a representative for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) confirmed to Fox News. All seven people aboard were uninjured.