Plane slides off runway at Midway
Thursday, December 8, 2005; Posted: 9:03 p.m. EST (02:03 GMT)
Emergency personnel work at the scene where an airliner slid off a runway Thursday in Chicago. CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) -- A Southwest Airlines jet slid off the runway during a driving snowstorm at Chicago's Midway Airport and slid into at least one vehicle at a nearby intersection on Thursday night, a spokeswoman for Chicago's Department of Aviation said.
Flight 1248, which was arriving from Baltimore, slid through a fence separating the runway from the intersection, spokeswoman Wendy Abrams said. There were no immediate reports of injuries.