Video appears to show cargo being sucked into plane's engine at O'Hare Airport

A luggage container hit a plane's engine cover in a separate incident at O'Hare.

ByABC7 Chicago Digital Team WLS logo
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Items hit plane engines in 2 separate incidents at O'Hare
In the most recent incident, a luggage container hit a Jet Blue plane's engine covers at O'Hare Airport.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Video has emerged online of an incident that damaged the engine of a plane at Chicago O'Hare International Airport.

The surveillance video appears to show the moment a piece of cargo got sucked into the engine.

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It happened last Thursday after American Airlines flight 47 arrived from London's Heathrow Airport.

No one was injured, and the FAA is investigating. Further information was not immediately available.

In a separate incident Tuesday, a luggage container hit a plane's engine covers at O'Hare.

Jet Blue says while one of it plane from Boston was taxiing to the gate, a container made contact with the plane's engine covers.

No one was hurt, and maintenance is checking the plane.

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