CNN —A United Airlines Boeing 767 plane lost its emergency evacuation slide in mid-air Monday – and it ended up in the backyard of a home near Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, officials and a witness said.
Patrick Devitt lives in the neighborhood where the slide came down, several miles from the runways at O’Hare.
When he got to the house, he dragged the slide from his backyard to the front of the home.
It’s a very, very big piece of equipment that fell.”Maintenance workers at O’Hare discovered the plane was missing its slide after it landed, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
In 2019, a slide fell off a Delta flight landing at Boston’s Logan International Airport.
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