CHICAGO _ A small plane landed on southbound South Lake Shore Drive mid-afternoon Friday, but no injuries were reported, officials said.
The plane landed a little after 3 p.m. local time, according to a police spokeswoman.
A man piloting the small plane landed it on the side of the southbound drive after it started experiencing some sort of mechanical problem, and neither he nor his female passenger was injured, said Larry Merritt, a spokesman for the Chicago Fire Department.
The man "landed on the curb of Lake Shore Drive like you would were parking your car in front of your house," Merritt said.
The pilot of "an Ercoupe 415-D aircraft, which is a fixed wing, single-engine aircraft, reported an emergency to air traffic control and landed on Lake Shore Drive in Chicago," said Elizabeth Isham Cory, a spokeswoman for the FAA's Chicago office, in an email. "The point of departure and intended destination are still being determined."
The two were in the plane when it began to lose power and the pilot was directed by air traffic control to land on Lake Shore, according to a police media notification.
Photos tweeted out by the Fire Department showed people talking to firefighters next to a small blue-and-yellow single-propeller plane.
The FAA and possibly the National Traffic Safety Board will investigate, Cory said.
