Location, Date &
Time of Incident
Incident Classification
Incident Synopsis with Source
DEL
28 Jul 2018
Aviation
Small plane lands on South Lake Shore Drive in traffic after flying under foot bridge, no one injured:
The pilot of small plane flew under a footbridge and landed in traffic on southbound South Lake Shore Drive on Friday afternoon, making an emergency landing without injuring himself or anyone else, including his passenger.
The plane landed near 3800 South Lake Shore Drive a little after 3:15 p.m., after the pilot told air traffic controllers he couldn’t make it to Midway Airport and he was directed to land where he could, according to officials in a news conference at the scene. By a little before 6 p.m., officials shut down southbound Lake Shore Drive to allow the plane to be removed.
The man piloting the small plane landed it on the side of the southbound drive after it started experiencing some sort of mechanical problem, and neither he nor his female passenger was injured. on .He flew underneath the footbridge at 35th and landed on the Lake Shore Drive southbound
The two were in the plane when it began to lose power and the pilot was directed by air traffic control to land on Lake Shore, according to a police media notification.
A man and woman had been flying along the shore of Lake Michigan from Wisconsin to Cleveland when they realized they were low on fuel, said Ald. Sophia King, 4th.
The plane is registered to Olson Products Inc., an insect-control product manufacturing company in Medina, Ohio, south of Cleveland, according to the FAA plane registry.
Cars in the southbound lanes moved to the right as the plane came to a stop with a
Nearly four hours after the plane had first touched down, it continued its journey south as it was carted away.
Plane lands on S. Lake Shore Drive
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