Tire falls off airplane en route to Chicago from U.P.

Tire falls off airplane

Police examine parts from an airplane wheel after it fell from a flying aircraft near several homes in the Jefferson Park neighborhood Thursday Jan. 21, 2021 in Chicago. No injuries were reported on the ground or among those on the plane, which the Chicago Department of Aviation said sent up sparks on a runway as it landed Thursday evening without its left side landing gear. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune via AP)Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune via AP

An airplane on its way to Chicago from the Upper Peninsula dropped landing gear into a neighborhood, on Thursday, Jan. 21, the Chicago Tribune reports.

A tire and other landing gear from a small plane plunged from the sky and landed between two houses in a Chicago neighborhood around 6:19 p.m.; no one was injured, the newspaper reports. The small tire – for an airplane – was from a single-engine Pilatus PC12.

The lopsided plane sent off considerable sparks when it landed at Chicago O’Hare International Airport, initiating an emergency response, the report said. The Boutique Airlines charter flight from Ironwood landed safely; the crew and passengers were uninjured.

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