A employee at Chicago O’Hare Worldwide Airport was critically injured on Saturday after a car that tows plane and a aircraft collided, inflicting the car to flip over, officers stated.
The collision occurred about 7:35 p.m. native time, when an Air Wisconsin jet that was approaching a gate struck the car, which is also called a tug, the Federal Aviation Administration stated.
“The tug flipped over, pinning the driving force beneath it,” the Chicago Police Division stated.
The tug was pushed by a 64-year-old man who sustained head and lower-body accidents, the police stated on Sunday. He was taken in important situation to Advocate Lutheran Basic Hospital, the place he was stabilized, the police stated.
The person was working the tug for United Airways, in line with the airline.
“We’re making certain he receives any mandatory help and care,” the airline stated in a press release.
Air Wisconsin is a regional airline that operates underneath American Eagle within the Midwest and the East Coast for American Airways, its dad or mum firm.
American Airways stated in a press release on Sunday that after the aircraft landed, passengers safely exited and had been taken to a terminal.
The aircraft, a Bombardier CRJ-200 that may carry as much as 50 passengers, had arrived in Chicago from Kalamazoo-Battle Creek Worldwide Airport in Michigan, in accordance American Airways. No passengers had been injured on the aircraft.
The Chicago Division of Aviation, which runs the airport, stated on Sunday there have been no important impacts on operations at O’Hare due to the collision. The F.A.A. and the Chicago Police Division stated they had been investigating.
The episode occurred a day after a medical aircraft crashed close to a shopping mall in Northeast Philadelphia, killing all six individuals on board and one individual on the bottom, the authorities stated.