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The Nome Nugget
Nome, Nome County, Alaska
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Pilot George Herbert safely lands a two-engine Lockheed Electra at Chicago's O'Hare Field after losing a cylinder and part of the cowling from one motor mid-flight over the city's northwest side. The debris crashed through an auto agency's roof, but no one was injured among the 10 passengers, two crewmen, or on the ground.
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CHICAGO. (A) The pilot of a shuttle service plane landed safely at O'Hare Field Friday after losing a cylinder and part of the cowling of one motor in flight.
The 10 passengers and two crewmen escaped injury.
The pilot of the two-engine Lockheed Electra, George Herbert, 35, said he made a "normal one-engine landing" and his only trouble was in getting taxicabs for the passengers afterwards.
Enroute from Chicago's Midway Airport to an airport at suburban Park Ridge. the plane blew the cylinder over the city's heavily populated northwest side.
Both the cylinder and the cowling piece crashed through the roof of an auto agency, but no one was hurt.
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Chicago, O'hare Field, Midway Airport, Park Ridge
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Friday
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Pilot George Herbert, 35, of a two-engine Lockheed Electra shuttle plane en route from Midway Airport to Park Ridge, loses a cylinder and part of the cowling over Chicago's northwest side. He makes a normal one-engine landing at O'Hare Field with 10 passengers and two crewmen unharmed. Debris crashes through an auto agency's roof but causes no injuries.