A driver of an aircraft tug was critically injured after the vehicle flipped over following a collision with an airplane at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport on Saturday. The incident occurred as the United Airlines tug attempted to cross a taxiway and came into contact with the wing of an Air Wisconsin flight that had just landed from Kalamazoo, Michigan. The 64-year-old driver was transported to Lutheran General Hospital with head and lower body injuries but was later stabilized. Passengers on the plane were not injured, and airport operations were not significantly impacted.
The driver of an aircraft tug was critically injured when the vehicle flipped over after colliding with an airplane Saturday at O'Hare Airport.
The crash happened around 6:58 p.m. in the 0-100 block of West Twya Street at O'Hare, Chicago police said.A United Airlines tug came into contact with the wing of an aircraft as it attempted to cross the taxiway, officials said. American Airlines confirms it was one of their aircraft, an Air Wisconsin flight that had just landed in Chicago from Kalamazoo, Michigan.
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