5 years ago I remember "The plane that parked on the street"

For us as Chicagoans this was both an odd and truly chilling event.

It was both unprescedented and more than a bit frightening.Not to mention the fact that had it not been for the tragedy ivolved with the event it would have almost seemed a bit intriguing.

It will be 5 years ago on Wednesday that Southwest Airlines Flight 1248 skidded off of the runway at our Midway airport while trying to land during a heavy snow storm and coming from Baltimore,Maryland.The plane came to rest in the middle of Brighton Avenue.Sadly once the momentum of the plane breached the airport's perimeter wall it came into collision with a car carrying a family of 5 that was visiting Chicago from neighboring Northest Indiana crushing it instantly.As a result a 6 year old boy was killed and his parents and younger siblings seriously hurt.

Today's news of the crash landing that killed 2 in Russia and Delta jet that skidded off the runway in Minneapolis brung back these awkward memories of this crazy story and somber anniversary.

I recall how bad that winter and storm was and I was working in Hodgkins at the main UPS processing hub about 10 miles away when it happened.I remember that day that it was still snowing when i got off my shift and went to jump in my car to go home so I got confused and wound up taking long roads all the way up to 79th street and saw plane awkwardly with its nose down sitting in the middle of the street like it was on a fueling run or something.

I cant LOL at this because a little kid died but if not for that it would be a little funny pondering what those people driving on Brighton were thinking and how many urinated and crapped on themselves when they saw a giant plane come past the security fence right infront of them.

RIP Joshua Woods

(1999-2005)

Yep Colt,I remember when that sheet happened too.I was like in 7th grade and that day me,mom's and Myla were were all going to go do some early Christmas shopping at Ford City but when we came back down 79th the road was blocked off at Connely on down and you could see po-po sirens through the foggy snow and then when we took a detour down the other side of the air port on Frontage we got closer on the other side of where the plane came out at and you could see the wing and part of the body.

Thats fucked up yo'

I know that no amount of money
could ever replace a son. But, wow!
I can only imagine how much that
family settled for in court?

Merry Christmas Josh! santa

Jeez man thats awful...

and a bad thing to be thinking about at this time of the year because we going to be traveling on air planes alot between now and mid-January because we will be in the U.S. visiting California and Nevada.

Didnt the plane have like backup emergency breaks? scratch

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not laughing but

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!!!!! confused

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Rookerman's Pawn wrote:

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not laughing but

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T

F

!!!!! confused

I cant even begin to imagine how terribly horrifying that whole event must have been for that family from start to finish.

RIP to the boy killed Crying or Very sad

IronMan64 wrote:

Rookerman's Pawn wrote:

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not laughing but

W

T

F

!!!!! confused

I cant even begin to imagine how terribly horrifying that whole event must have been for that family from start to finish.

RIP to the boy killed Crying or Very sad

omg!I would have just died from a heart attack or fainted seeing something like that while driving.

an incident like that happened a few days ago in Russia but sadly two people lost their lives:

It went down in very snowy conditions.The next day Ukrainian airlines nearly had a similar incident.

What is remarkable is that more people didnt die.The tupolex was carryign 169 pasengers and crew.

|SaD|Colt.45 wrote:

For us as Chicagoans this was both an odd and truly chilling event.

It was both unprescedented and more than a bit frightening.Not to mention the fact that had it not been for the tragedy ivolved with the event it would have almost seemed a bit intriguing.

It will be 5 years ago on Wednesday that Southwest Airlines Flight 1248 skidded off of the runway at our Midway airport while trying to land during a heavy snow storm and coming from Baltimore,Maryland.The plane came to rest in the middle of Brighton Avenue.Sadly once the momentum of the plane breached the airport's perimeter wall it came into collision with a car carrying a family of 5 that was visiting Chicago from neighboring Northest Indiana crushing it instantly.As a result a 6 year old boy was killed and his parents and younger siblings seriously hurt.

Today's news of the crash landing that killed 2 in Russia and Delta jet that skidded off the runway in Minneapolis brung back these awkward memories of this crazy story and somber anniversary.

I recall how bad that winter and storm was and I was working in Hodgkins at the main UPS processing hub about 10 miles away when it happened.I remember that day that it was still snowing when i got off my shift and went to jump in my car to go home so I got confused and wound up taking long roads all the way up to 79th street and saw plane awkwardly with its nose down sitting in the middle of the street like it was on a fueling run or something.

I cant LOL at this because a little kid died but if not for that it would be a little funny pondering what those people driving on Brighton were thinking and how many urinated and crapped on themselves when they saw a giant plane come past the security fence right infront of them.

RIP Joshua Woods

(1999-2005)

Jesus thats awful.That poor family and little boy.Why is life so random.I dont knwo why but this brings back memories for me of Aaliyah and my great grandfather who died flying missions during WW2.RIP to all of them.

Posts: 521 Join date: 2010-06-05 Age: 28 Location: Germany

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Jesus thats awful.That poor family and little boy.Why is life so random.I dont knwo why but this brings back memories for me of Aaliyah and my great grandfather who died flying missions during WW2.RIP to all of them.

Just curious Lilly,did he fly in the Eurpean Theatre or Pacific?

Stick wrote:

an incident like that happened a few days ago in Russia but sadly two people lost their lives:

It went down in very snowy conditions.The next day Ukrainian airlines nearly had a similar incident.

What is remarkable is that more people didnt die.The tupolex was carryign 169 pasengers and crew.

The crash pic isnt amazing....what is amazing is that looking at it;the realization that only 2 people got killed Shocked

thats a miracle.

Brittney wrote:

Yep Colt,I remember when that sheet happened too.I was like in 7th grade and that day me,mom's and Myla were were all going to go do some early Christmas shopping at Ford City but when we came back down 79th the road was blocked off at Connely on down and you could see po-po sirens through the foggy snow and then when we took a detour down the other side of the air port on Frontage we got closer on the other side of where the plane came out at and you could see the wing and part of the body.

Thats fucked up yo'

Yea that was a baaad winter that year Britt.ofcourse we always get the worse of em here in the midwest dont we? Cool

.The worse snow season Ive seen since then was 07'.08' when I and a coupel of girls I worked with were dumb enough to try and drive up to chicago from Champaign in the middle of a damn blizzard at night.Thank god we made it there safely I wiped out a ocuple times on the freeway.

pilot should have been cited for DUI

Texas Man wrote:

pilot should have been cited for DUI

lol

I just got word yesterday that an olf college buddy of mine from freshman year was on the United Airlines Flight that got shook up as a result of all of those tornadoes that spawned in the Houston Texas area early last week.He wasnt hurt though thank God.

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