Southwest crash at Midway.
On Thursday, the Midwest was hit by a snow storm that started somewhere near the Rocky Mountains, and travelled all the way to the Atlantic Ocean by Friday. Thursday evening, after it had been snowing in Chicago for about 5 hours, a Southwest Airplane was trying to land at Midway Airport. The runway conditions were less than desirable and the plane ended up sliding down the runway and right into traffic, killing a 6 year old boy who was a passenger in an SUV that the nose of the plane landed on.
This evening, I received this email containing 3 arial photographs of the scene the day following the accident. I am only showing 2 of the photos. The email contains the photographers account of obtaining the photos. These pictures are his property and came to me second hand. For more information about his services, please go to his website. And Allan, I hope you dont mind me sharing this with a few of my friends.
HERE IS HIS STORY
Photos taken by Allan Goldstein.
Subject: Southwest airlines accident aerial photographs
I was able to overfly the Southwest Airlines accident at Midway airport and got a whole series of aerial photos. I have included 3 three of them here. Sadly, a little boy was killed when the engine crushed the car he was in. This is the first and only fatality Southwest has had in its' 35 year history.In order to accomplish this photo mission, I called Midway tower on the phone and talked with the tower operater who said we could do it. However, when I was near the area, the tower controller said the City of Chicago did not want any airplane overflying the site. She said I could hold outside the area and they would call the city and ask. After about 20 minutes and a few radios calls to them, they insisted the city did not want anyone overflying the area. I was pretty ticked off and reminded the controller that the airspace is NATIONAL airspace and should be open to everyone and the City does not have the right to prohibit aircraft from going anywhere. I told her I was going to head back to the airport, land and talk with someone from the city. (She gave me the phone number). About 2 minutes later, she came back and told me that if I still wanted to do the photo shoot, I have the permission to do so. What a surprise!! We went over the site and got about 70 images, both close up and wide angle. The 6500 foot runway leaves little room for error. Obviously most airliners land safely, but if there is a failure of any control, such as brakes, engine, thrust reversers, spoilers or flight crew, the landing is in jeapordy.
On Thursday, the Midwest was hit by a snow storm that started somewhere near the Rocky Mountains, and travelled all the way to the Atlantic Ocean by Friday. Thursday evening, after it had been snowing in Chicago for about 5 hours, a Southwest Airplane was trying to land at Midway Airport. The runway conditions were less than desirable and the plane ended up sliding down the runway and right into traffic, killing a 6 year old boy who was a passenger in an SUV that the nose of the plane landed on.
This evening, I received this email containing 3 arial photographs of the scene the day following the accident. I am only showing 2 of the photos. The email contains the photographers account of obtaining the photos. These pictures are his property and came to me second hand. For more information about his services, please go to his website. And Allan, I hope you dont mind me sharing this with a few of my friends.
HERE IS HIS STORY
Photos taken by Allan Goldstein.
Subject: Southwest airlines accident aerial photographs
I was able to overfly the Southwest Airlines accident at Midway airport and got a whole series of aerial photos. I have included 3 three of them here. Sadly, a little boy was killed when the engine crushed the car he was in. This is the first and only fatality Southwest has had in its' 35 year history.In order to accomplish this photo mission, I called Midway tower on the phone and talked with the tower operater who said we could do it. However, when I was near the area, the tower controller said the City of Chicago did not want any airplane overflying the site. She said I could hold outside the area and they would call the city and ask. After about 20 minutes and a few radios calls to them, they insisted the city did not want anyone overflying the area. I was pretty ticked off and reminded the controller that the airspace is NATIONAL airspace and should be open to everyone and the City does not have the right to prohibit aircraft from going anywhere. I told her I was going to head back to the airport, land and talk with someone from the city. (She gave me the phone number). About 2 minutes later, she came back and told me that if I still wanted to do the photo shoot, I have the permission to do so. What a surprise!! We went over the site and got about 70 images, both close up and wide angle. The 6500 foot runway leaves little room for error. Obviously most airliners land safely, but if there is a failure of any control, such as brakes, engine, thrust reversers, spoilers or flight crew, the landing is in jeapordy.
posted by KrazyBy4Kids at 12/11/2005 08:51:00 PM
3 Comments:
Way cool, I have never done this before. Must figure out the time thing tho'. That is not when I created the post. Hmmmm
Nice job kb4k, indeed a nasty wreck. The investigation should tell the story.
Wayne
WOW, what a tragedy for that poor little boy's family!!!
:(
May God rest his little soul!
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