December 9, 200520 yr Wow these are some crazy pictures. Put on CNN, this plane literally slid off of the airport, and onto a residental road. Its crazy Ugh the plane hit a car driving on the road. 8 year old boy is dead.
December 9, 200520 yr Author Here is somethign creepy. Exactly 33 years ago today, there was another crash at Midway. I live about 45 minutes (depending on traffic) outside of Chicago, and if this crash happend at 7:30 like they are saying it did those planes should not have been flying. I got out of school at 3:15 and the conditions and roads were already awful. It hasn't stopped snowing since then, and as you can see on the news it is still snowing. Its stupid that they were flying.
December 9, 200520 yr Yeah its nuts in Chicago right now. Im stunned that they let those planes land and didnt divert them. My car got stuck in the snow about two hours ago and it took about a 1/2 hour to get it out.
December 9, 200520 yr Very unfortunate for the child. Accidents happen, but these are professionals. They should know not to give into public impatience.
December 9, 200520 yr theres been alot of bad luck in aviation latley jeez (has checkride on saturday, gets nervouse) Very unfortunate for the child. Accidents happen, but these are professionals. They should know not to give into public impatience. Pilots should have diverted, Air Traffic Control probably told them to come on down it will be fine, but the pilot should have said no thanks and be diverted somewhere else for a bit.
December 10, 200520 yr That's what occurs when an airline is too cheap to fly out of Chicago O'Hare and instead lands on a runway that's way too short to land on in the snow.
December 10, 200520 yr I'm sure the icey weather in this case was a bigger factor in the crash, but you have to wonder what the turnout would've been if they had a regular sized runway. All that aside, my heart goes out to that kid's family
December 10, 200520 yr Midway has super short runways, about 1,000 feet longer then the ones I takeoff from and I'm flying a Cessna right now.
December 11, 200520 yr The pilots said the engine reversers did not engage properly and by the time they increased the brakes it was too late.
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