Article: ATA Plane Overshoots Runway at Midway

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-030908midway,1,2593750.story?coll=chi-news-hed

Plane overshoots runway at Midway

By John McCormick
Tribune staff reporter

September 8, 2003, 3:44 PM CDT

An ATA jet with 114 people aboard overshot a runway while landing at Midway
Airport this afternoon, but no injuries were reported in the incident,
authorities said.

ATA Flight 647, a twin-engine Boeing 757 jetliner inbound to Chicago from
Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., was landing on Runway 31C at 1:41 p.m. when it ran off
the end of the runway, said FAA spokeswoman Elizabeth Isham Cory.

Emergency crews of the Chicago Fire Department responded.

The aircraft sustained minor damage, but no one aboard appeared to have been
hurt, Cory said.

The plane had 107 passengers and seven crew members aboard, said Monique
Bond, spokeswoman for the Chicago Department of Aviation.

The plane remained at the end of the runway, at the northwest corner of the
airport, as a portable staircase was wheeled up to it. Passengers were taken
off the aircraft and bused to the terminal.

Runway 31C runs diagonally across the Southwest Side airfield from the
southeast to the northwest.

Copyright © 2003, Chicago Tribune

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