Plane makes emergency landing on Chicago’s Lake Shore Drive
This isn’t something you see every day: A small plane landed on Chicago’s Lake Shore Drive early Sunday morning after the pilot encountered some mechanical difficulties.
No one was hurt.
According to the Chicago Tribune, John Pedersen guided his juddering two-seater over Millennial Park after a stabilizing part on the plane malfunctioned.
He saw traffic on the famous drive and tried to time his landing for when the cars were stopped at a red light.
“You pick a landing spot that’s not going to jeopardize anybody else,” Pedersen told the Tribune.
Yet after he set down the plane safety, he said, two cars hit it and sped away.
Fire officials rolled the plane off the highway, at which point the whole ordeal became a bit of a novelty for emergency responders and onlookers taking photos of the craft. (Photos of the plane didn’t reveal much, if any, damage.)
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