{"id":914042,"date":"2026-07-05T11:41:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T11:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/914042\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T11:41:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T11:41:15","slug":"plane-hit-by-firework-at-chicagos-midway-airport-airline-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/914042\/","title":{"rendered":"Plane hit by firework at Chicago\u2019s Midway Airport, airline says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\"><strong>CHICAGO<\/strong> &#8211; A plane was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">hit by a firework<\/a> as it was landing at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/transportation\/midway\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Chicago\u2019s Midway International Airport<\/a> on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WFLD\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The Delta plane was traveling from Atlanta and landing in Chicago around 8:38 p.m. when it &#8220;made contact&#8221; with a firework, according to a Delta spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;The flight safely landed and taxied to the gate,&#8221; the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The crew reported that the firework had hit the plane.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The incident is under evaluation, Delta said. It was unclear where the firework came from or if any damage was sustained.<\/p>\n<p> The Source <\/p>\n<ul class=\"list thumbs\" data-v-458cfe50=\"\" data-v-ddebd2ec=\"\">\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-458cfe50=\"\">\n<p>The information in this story was provided by Delta Air Lines and FlightAware.com.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/transportation\/midway\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Midway International Airport<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/us\/il\/cook-county\/chicago\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/travel-news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Travel News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO &#8211; A plane was hit by a firework as it was landing at Chicago\u2019s Midway International Airport&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":914043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5404,6082,5386,1818,56899,50,522,18900,68],"class_list":["post-914042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-chicago","tag-cook-county","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-midway","tag-news","tag-transportation","tag-travel-news","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116867189095846029","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/914043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}