Midway: Southwest Plane Crashes through fence.

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[sharkhawk]

A plane has apparently crashed through a fence at Midway airport in Chicago. Southwest airline 737 plane now sitting in intersection of 55th and Central. Channel 7 has confirmed, fire and ambulances on way. Details still sketchy.

[notpoliticallycorewrecked]

Forgot to lower the gear?

Nah, that only happen in LA on the Airbus.

[mhking]

Any local station have live streams online?

WMAQ gave a quick bulletin with some preliminary pics, but they can't get a live crew out there -- I've been trying to find some pics.

I'm streaming MSNBC right now (at 11Alive.com -- yes, that's me driving there), and just checked what WMAQ was uplinking a minute ago, and couldn't get anything.

[Chi-townChief]

Don't know but they all appear to be back to regular programs now.

[stlnative]

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[mhking]

Plane is at 55th and Central - the northwest corner of Midway Airport with hard landing.

[A.A. Cunningham]

Lilia Chacon of WFLD on CNN doing her "best" Hindenburg reenactment.

[JRandomFreeper]

Should've tried the drive-thru at White Castle.

Thanks. Do you have any idea how far I am from ANY White Castle Restaurant? And how much I'm craving, now that you mentioned it? ;>)

/john

[mhking]

Lilia Chacon of WFLD on CNN doing her "best" Hindenburg reenactment.

Just fitting, considering the annoucner that did the Hindenberg thing was from WLS radio...

[tcrlaf]

I did ATA L-10 Widebodies out of Midway several times...

ALWAYS got nervous landing or taking off on a hot day at MDW in one of those...

[Chi-townChief]

I missed the barge explosion earlier this year by the Cicero Avenue Bridge by about an hour as well.

[Heatseeker]

Thanks guys - I'll try MSNBC and keep hunting. WBBM spent about 10 seconds on it and went back to commercials and promos.

[txroadkill]

THis is going to have something to do with the auto-brake, SW policies, and the up-grades to -700's.
I believe that SW tried to make sure that all the new 737 cockpits were set up like -300 so the pilots didn't have to retrain or misread the new gages. The old -300 didn't have auto-brake and with the newer models they were real iffy about letting them use them. I know they were allowed to use "RTO" and were waiting for SW to allow them to use the auto-brakes on landing. I'm guessing at this point but I bet he was using it and set it either too high causing it to skid in the ice or set it to low and didn't stop fast enough.

[mhking]

I did ATA L-10 Widebodies out of Midway several times...

A widebody out of Midway? You're a braver man than I...

[Cobra64]

It is quite a trip taking off from Midway. I've been on planes at least twice that have aborted takeoffs and gone back to try again.

A landing is very different from a take-off.

*rolling eyes*

[College Repub]

That looks pretty small compared to some other airports. Certainly compared to BWI

[NRA2BFree]

"Southwest airline 737 plane now sitting in intersection of 55th and Central"

This just strikes me as wrong...

LOL It sure does. :o)

[tcrlaf]

You should have tried a full one on a hot day.....

blows to actually know something about aviation, and be sweating while the cattle are just glad to be leaving for vegas..

[Chi-townChief]

Saw a 747 take off out of Peoria one time after it had to make an emergency landing there; it flew out with only the crew and used just about every foot of the runway.

[A.A. Cunningham]

Runway 31C 6522'

[stlnative]

So the White Castle is at the Southwest Corner on the last map I posted?