As if airport tarmacs aren’t busy sufficient with catering vehicles and cleansing providers and emergency personnel and extra – to not point out the airplanes themselves – comes this disturbing information. 

There was an accident on Friday evening at O’Hare Worldwide Airport in Chicago that concerned a automobile and an airplane. 

The incident occurred when a shuttle van collided with a 50-passenger American Eagle regional jet that was taxiing for takeoff to Dayton, Ohio. 

Two individuals had been injured, in accordance with the Chicago Fireplace Division. 

One passenger on the airplane stated there was a “jarring influence,” and that everyone was “all shook up.” 

Each of the injured passengers had been on the shuttle van, though the airplane appeared to take the worst of it with a deep gash that rendered it ineffective. All different passengers in each the van and the airplane had been ushered again right into a terminal at O’Hare. 

American Airways issued a press release late Friday evening following the crash that learn: “An worker bus made contact with American Eagle flight 6209 operated by Air Wisconsin Airways whereas the plane was taxiing at Chicago O’Hare Worldwide Airport (ORD). Six staff members onboard the bus are receiving additional analysis at a neighborhood hospital and there have been no reported accidents onboard the plane. The plane has been taken out of service and prospects have boarded a alternative plane to proceed on to Dayton, OH (DAY) tonight.” 

Not less than one passenger noticed the levity within the state of affairs by cracking that he bought on a airplane and was hit by a bus. 


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