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Small plane makes emergency landing on Chicago expressway
(Reuters) - A pilot of a small plane was forced to make an emergency landing early on Sunday on a busy Chicago expressway that skirts Lake Michigan after waiting for a gap in the traffic, authorities said. (www.reuters.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
I think he could have made it because the map I looked at shows that Meigs
Appears to be only a mile or so away.
Appears to be only a mile or so away.
Just because it's only a "mile or so away" doesn't mean he would have made it. Air speed and altitude will determine that. Sullenberger was only a short distance from TEB but he determined he would come up short and put his airplane in the Hudson River.
What a great field Meigs was. I loved flying in there at sunset. The beautiful skyline of Chicago. The only downside was the wave coming off of McCormack Place with a strong West wind and landing North.
Be thankful Ray. I remember a few that ended up in the Lake.
When the interstates were built around 1959 they were designed to land a B707. Not a new idea.
Yea but, they were going top block auto and truck traffic first. Good job by the pilot. I wonder if a cop tried to give him a parking ticket like the one in Colorado.
make it to LSD he could have made it to Merrill C. Meigs Field,
if only it were still there, which was my original point.