No injuries reported after plane veers off runway, crashes into fence at Wheeling airport
No injuries were reported after a small plane ran off the runway and into a fence at the Chicago Executive Airport in north suburban Wheeling Wednesday.
Shortly after noon, the Wheeling Fire Department received an alert that a plane had gone off the runway, chief Scott Salela told Network Video Productions. Ambulances responded to the scene and evaluated the two passengers of the plane, who were uninjured and refused ambulance service.
The plane, a Gulfstream G150, had just landed after a flight from the Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, according to the Federal Aviation Administration, which is investigating the crash.
The airport was closed and the fire department remained on the scene while the plane was being towed away, but there aren’t any hazards to the area, according to Salela and Carmina Esguerra, a spokesperson for the airport.
An observer who drove by the airport around the time of the crash came to see what happened.
“I didn’t see anybody in an ambulance,” he told Network Video Productions. “Everybody was shaken up, but they weren’t injured in that sense.”
Authorities investigate Wednesday after a Gulfstream G150 plane ran off the runway and into a fence at the Chicago Executive Airport in Wheeling.
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Authorities investigate Wednesday after a Gulfstream G150 plane ran off the runway and into a fence at the Chicago Executive Airport in Wheeling.
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