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Air Traffic Monitoring => Listener Forum => Topic started by: chefnoel on September 22, 2008, 05:47:33 PM

Title: AMERICAN AIRLINES 757 ROLLS OFF RUNWAY AT ORD
Post by: chefnoel on September 22, 2008, 05:47:33 PM

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-ohare-plane-runwaysep23,0,3209332.story

Title: Re: AMERICAN AIRLINES 757 ROLLS OFF RUNWAY AT ORD
Post by: mhawke on September 23, 2008, 01:08:50 AM

I happened to be traveling through ORD this evening after the incident happened.  Went past the jet sitting in the grass.  They were just getting out a backhoe to start making a path for it.  It tore up quite a bit of grass.

Wish I had my camera with me...


Incidentaly (unrelated) I was flying through ORD last weekend when they got 10inches of rain.  Quite a site, the green areas between the taxi ways and runways were flooded.  The water was lapping at the edges of the runway and we had along taxit to find an exit from the runway that wasn't flooded.