Plane crashes into home near Midway

The plane that crashed early Tuesday in the 6500 block of South Knox Avenue near Midway Airport is slowly pulled away from the home it crashed into. The aircraft was lowered, cut apart and removed.  (Phil Velasquez / Chicago Tribune)

The plane that crashed early Tuesday in the 6500 block of South Knox Avenue near Midway Airport was slowly pulled away from the home it crashed into, lowered and cut apart in segments and removed Tuesday afternoon.   (Phil Velasquez / Chicago Tribune)

The plane that crashed last night in the 6500 block of South Knox Avenue near Midway Airport is slowly pulled away from the home it crashed into. The aircraft was lowered, cut apart and removed.  (Phil Velasquez / Chicago Tribune)

A small plane crashed into a house in the 6500 block of South Knox Avenue in Chicago on early Tuesday.  (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)

A Southwest Airlines flight passes over the scene where a twin-engine aircraft crashed into a house shortly after taking off from Midway Airport.

A small plane crashed into a house in the 6500 block of South Knox Avenue in Chicago on Tuesday morning. The pilot was killed, but the homeowners were uninjured.  (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)

Firefighters look at the wheel of a small plane that crashed into a house in the 6500 block of South Knox Avenue in Chicago.  (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)

Chicago firefighters at the scene where a small plane crashed into a house in the 6500 block of South Knox Avenue early Tuesday morning.  (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)

A plane flies over the Southwest Side neighborhood near Midway Airport, about a block from the site of Tuesday’s plane crash on South Knox Avenue.  (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)

Chicago firefighters walk out the back of the house where a small plane crashed in the 6500 block of South Knox Avenue in Chicago.  (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)

Firefighters n the 6500 block of South Knox Avenue in Chicago after a small plane crashed into a house Tuesday.  (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)

Chicago firefighters gather on the sidewalk near where a small plane crashed into a house early Tuesday in the 6500 block of South Knox Avenue.  (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)

A woman takes a peek from across the street where a small plane crashed into a house in the 6500 block of South Knox Avenue in Chicago on Tuesday morning.  (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)

A Chicago firefighter walks near equipment parked near the scene where a small plane crashed into a house early Tuesday in the 6500 block of South Knox Avenue in Chicago.  (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)