United Airlines Jet Stuck at End of O'Hare Runway

A United Airlines flight from San Francisco landed in Chicago and got stuck Friday afternoon, according to the Chicago Fire Department. Welcome to winter in Chicago. Flight 734, carrying 185 passengers, landed around noon and the front landing gear slid into the grass alongside the runway.

No one was hurt. Emergency crews responded. Passengers deplaned via stairways and rode buses to the terminal.

It’s snowing at O’Hare Airport at this hour. According to an image from FlightAware24.com, the jet reached the end of the runway and slid in the grassy median as it turned onto the taxiway.

Don Dodge, who works for Google, snapped a few photos from inside the plane and posted them on Twitter.

“I’ve flown 2 million miles and never seen this before,” Dodge tweeted.

Well, this actually happened just a few weeks ago at O’Hare. On Dec. 30, another United jet, this one from Seattle, skidded past its turn at the end of an O’Hare runway. The plane was towed back to the gate and passengers deplaned safely.

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