United Airlines emergency evacuation slide falls from plane into Chicago neighborhood

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The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating after an emergency slide fell off a plane mid-flight and into a residential neighborhood near Chicago's O'Hare International Airport.MULTIPLE INJURED WHEN ALLEGIANT AIR FLIGHT HITS TURBULENCE: ‘LOOKED LIKE THE MATRIX’

"When it’s all stretched out – like, it’s a little jumbled up, I’m sure, in the picture from when we dragged it out – it’s larger than a small car," Devitt told WLS."It’s a very, very big piece of equipment." A maintenance crew at the airport discovered that one of the plane’s emergency slides was missing after the United Airlines flight landed from Zurich, Switzerland, the FAA confirmed to Fox News Digital.After the Devitts made the unusual discovery, they dragged the silver slide to their front yard and called theAuthorities, along with FAA investigators, responded to the scene on the 4700 block of North Chester Avenue. The FAA said the incident is under investigation.

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