March 02--No one was injured when a private jet slid off the end of a runway at O'Hare International Airport early Tuesday afternoon, officials said.
A few minutes later, an American Airlines plane asked to be towed after sliding on a taxiway, officials said.
The private jet, an Embraer Phenom E55P, landed at O'Hare a little after noon and slid off runway 9L/27R, said FAA spokeswoman Elizabeth Isham Cory. Neither of the two people onboard were injured, according to Cory and Karen Pride, a spokeswoman for the city's Aviation Department.
The runway remained closed about 1:30 p.m., Cory said in an email.
The plane, operated by NetJets -- a Berkshire Hathaway company that offers both leased and shared-ownership planes -- was destined for Chicago Executive Airport in Wheeling, according to Pride.
A few minutes after the Embraer slid off the runway, the pilot of American Airlines Flight 1051, a McDonnell Douglas MD-83 that travels to and from Newark, N.J., asked to be towed to the terminal after the plane slid on Taxiway J.
The slide-off is at least the third time an airplane has slid off the runway, O'Hare's newest, since Dec. 30.
The mishaps come as about 400 flights have been canceled at O'Hare and about 70 at Midway Airport because of weather conditions, according the Aviation Department and the FAA.
