SW Airline Flight Skids Off Runway In Chicago

A Southwest Airlines flight from Baltimore to Chicago slid off a runway at Midway International Airport and onto a nearby street as it attempted to land amid heavy snow and wind on Thursday. Two passengers on the Boeing 737 suffered minor injuries, and as many as seven people on the ground were hurt and one six year old boy on was killed when the plane crashed into the car he was riding in. At least two vehicles were damaged, and one was pinned under the wing.

The accident happened about 7:15 p.m. when Southwest flight 1248 inbound from Baltimore slid off the runway, skidded through the airport's boundary fence and crashed into a lamp post on 55th Street and Central Avenue, approximately 100 feet south of the airport. The plane came to a stop on Central Avenue, according to the Federal Aviation Administration's regional office in Chicago. The flight was scheduled to continue on to Las Vegas.