Two Plane Incidents, Chicago December 2008

CHICAGO-Two Plane Indicates in Chicago's O'Hare airport. A passenger jet preparing to take off the runway from the at Chicago airport skidded. An American Airlines plane hit a patch of ice and slid off a runway at O'Hare International Airport Wednesday night. Airline announced 'engine problems' before flight. Passengers hospitalized as plane crash probed. The aircraft, an MD-80 was bound for Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport when it slid off Runway 22 Left, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

Passengers de-boarded, and were taken to airport buses to be taken back to the terminal, according to Fire Media Affairs Cmdr. The 54 passengers would be put onto a later flight out of O’Hare. No exact plans for these passengers have been made. Two American Airlines jets were guided past each other at a fraction of the legal minimum distance of separation between them because of an error by an air traffic assistant.

The Federal Aviation Administration has informed the safety board that a series of steps will be taken to remedy air traffic problems in the Chicago area. An air traffic assistant in the tower at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport the wrong code assigned to the crew of a United Airlines plane that was about to take off. Plane crashes may be caused by pilot error, other human error, mechanical failure, weather, or any combination of these.

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