A United Airlines Boeing 767 emergency slide lands in a backyard as a flight from Switzerland lands at Chicago O’Hare Airport.
Resident Patrick DeWitt was at home on the city’s northwest side when the Silver Slide crashed into his backyard Workers in O’Hare realized after the jet landed that one of its evacuation slides was missing The FAA is currently investigating the case
Chicago residents heard a loud crash as the plane landed at O’Hare Airport after an emergency slide from a United Airlines Boeing 767 landed in a man’s backyard.
Patrick DeWitt was driving home to his home on North Chester Avenue on the city’s northwest side when he said his son and father-in-law, who were home at the time, ‘heard a loud bang next door’ around midday Monday.
DeWitt said the pair initially didn’t make much noise until her father-in-law went outside and discovered the silver slide in pieces in the yard.
Neither of them immediately identified what the slide was other than ‘definitely something that shouldn’t be there’ and called 911 after noticing the fuel caps next to the object.
Fortunately no one was injured when the slide fell from the plane from Switzerland. The FAA is now conducting an investigation.
Law enforcement officials were on the scene Monday afternoon when an emergency slide fell from an airplane and landed in a backyard on Chicago’s North Side.
A map shows the proximity of the backyard where the missing slide was found to Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, where the United flight landed the slide safely.
A fully inflated emergency plane is shown being deployed from the side of a plane
Investigators and members of the Chicago PD are inspecting the slide found in a local yard
Patrick said the Chicago Police Department was ‘great, they were here right away’ and other units soon joined them. The slide was finally cleared at around 3.45pm.
Davitt said there was ‘a little damage’ to his house, but ‘nothing too much’ in the strange incident.
Maintenance workers at Chicago O’Hare discovered an emergency evacuation slide was missing from a United Airlines Boeing 767 that landed without incident after taking off from Europe.
United said the Boeing was operated by 10 crew members and had 155 customers.
“We immediately contacted the FAA and are working with our team to better understand the situation surrounding this matter,” United added in a statement.
The slide has now been removed from the yard.