Yesterday, November 11, during landing at the international airport O’hara in Chicago the American Airlines plane, on Board of which there were 41 people, slid off a snowy runway.
Fortunately, no one was hurt in the terrible, captured on video the incident.
«The plane arriving from North Carolina, landed on runway 10L at about 7:45 a.m. and headed for the taxiway P4, when broken down main chassis», — said the representative of the civil aviation authority Tony Molinaro.
Video shot by passenger Joseph Layanam shows that the plane turns sideways, and then off the runway when the wing touches the ground.
.@AmericanAir: “After landing, American Eagle flight 4125,operated by Envoy Air, slid off the runway due to icy conditions at Chicago O’hare. No injuries reported.All 38 passengers and 3 crew members were deplaned from the aircraft and are now safely back in the terminal.” #ABC11 pic.twitter.com/ijFecAlsSl
— Andrea Blanford (@AndreaABC11) November 11, 2019
«After landing, the plane slid off the runway due to icy conditions in Chicago — said the press-Secretary of the American Airlines Sarah Yantz. All 38 passengers and three crew members were landed from the plane, and safely proceeded to the terminal.»
Some passengers said that the visibility was poor.
«This was our second attempt at landing,» said passenger Sean Steele.
«Visibility was not at all,’ said another passenger, Luis Torres, Father. We saw a town about 50 feet from the ground. It is dangerous».
He accused the airline that she had put passengers at risk, landing in unsafe conditions.
«They had to know it. On the runway was ice. We tried to make a landing. It failed, we tried again and we were lucky that we had a very competent pilot who knew what to do.»
More than 600 flights were canceled in the windy City on Monday, and hundreds more were delayed, according to FlightAware and the Department of aviation Chicago.
