The Chicago O’Hare Worldwide Airport is seen from the south air visitors management tower on April 22, 2019.
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A airplane struck an plane tug automobile at Chicago O’Hare Worldwide Airport on Saturday, sending the 64-year-old driver to the hospital with a number of accidents.
After flying in from Kalamazoo, Mich., Saturday night, Air Wisconsin Flight 6181 landed in Chicago and was on its method to the gate when it collided with a tug on the taxiway.
Based on the Chicago Police Division, the driving force of the tug — a small automobile designed to tow plane — was attempting to cross the taxiway when the tug and the Bombardier CRJ-200 jet crashed, flipping the tug and pinning the driving force beneath.
The tug driver sustained head and decrease physique accidents and was transported to Lutheran Normal Hospital in vital situation however was later stabilized, police mentioned.
No passengers or crew members aboard the flight have been injured, based on a press release from American Airways. Air Wisconsin operates flights for the regional American Eagle community, which is a part of American Airways.
“Nothing is extra vital than the protection of our clients and group members, and we’re reviewing this incident,” American Airways mentioned in a press release.
The corporate added that the tug was operated by one other service.
Passengers deplaned and have been transported to the terminal by bus.
The Federal Aviation Administration said it is investigating the incident.
The incident got here someday after a medical transport jet crashed in Northeast Philadelphia, leaving not less than seven individuals useless, and fewer than per week because the deadly middair collision of an American Airways airplane and an Military helicopter close to Washington, D.C., which killed all 67 individuals on board each plane within the deadliest U.S. aviation catastrophe in twenty years.
