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Plane skids off runway, boy killed

CHICAGO: A Boeing 737 trying to land in heavy snow at a Chicago airport slid off a runway and crashed through a boundary fence, onto a busy street where it hit one car and pinned another beneath it.

A 6-year-old boy in one of the vehicles was killed. Two of the 103 people on the airliner suffered minor injuries in the accident on Thursday night at Midway International Airport, and eight people in the two cars were hurt, authorities said. Five people were in one car, four in the other.

The boy was dead on arrival at a nearby hospital, spokeswoman Deborah Song said. Two adults and two other children were at the hospital, their conditions ranging from serious to good, she said.

Passenger Mike Abate said after the landing he saw a father carrying an injured child and other people being taken away in an ambulance.

Ninety-eight passengers and five crew members were on board Southwest Airlines Flight 1248 from Baltimore, Maryland, to Chicago.

The airplane's nose was crushed and a severely damaged engine was on the ground.

AP

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