Southwest Airline Boeing 737-7H4 plane crash
Chicago (Illinois), USA
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A jetliner from Southwest Airlines was performing a passenger flight from Baltimore to Chicago, with 98 passengers and 5
crew members onboard, when it crashed after landing at Midway-Chicago International Airport. The nose landing gear
collapsed after the aircraft touched down. Then, The plane went off the end of the runway and slammed through a fence before
striking two vehicles. One person in a car was killed while 8 other people in both cars were injured.
Onboard, two passengers were injured.
The plane landed in very bad conditions: in extremely low visibility and on a short, snow-covered runway, during a snow
storm.
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Aircraft similar to the one which crashed (Boeing 737-7H4)
Chicago (IL), USA (Red dot on map)