Chicago Firefighters Honored For Extinguishing Jet Fire At O'Hare
Fire officials say they knew the plane could have exploded. It has happened before. CBS 2's Jim Williams reports.
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Fire officials say they knew the plane could have exploded. It has happened before. CBS 2's Jim Williams reports.
The Transportation Security Administration said the new automated lanes are estimated to reduce wait times at screening checkpoints by 30 percent.
An engine disk that broke apart and forced an American Airlines jet to abort a takeoff in Chicago last week shows signs of fatigue cracking, according to a preliminary report released Friday by accident investigators.
CBS 2 spoke to Chicago area aviation lawyer, Floyd Wisner via Skype, who says he believes this same situation has happened at least three times in the past year.
A woman who was on board an American Airlines flight that caught fire and had to be evacuated on the runway Friday at O'Hare International Airport credited her service dog for keeping herself and others calm.
An investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board stressed the investigation is in its early stages.
A fire broke out on a commerical aircraft at O'Hare Airport on Friday.
Data Communication plans to be completed by November for both O'Hare and Midway Airports to reduce the chance of miscommunication and speed up the process of clearing runways.
One of the nation's busiest airports finally has a TSA PreCheck Enrollment Center open.
The number of people complaining about night O'Hare Airport jet noise jumped more than 80 percent after the first month of a test program to spread out the impact of night flights, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting.
Airport security wait times that sometimes stretched to two hours or more at O'Hare and Midway airports this spring have been cut down to 10 minutes or less, city officials announced Tuesday.
Work was set to begin Thursday on a new runway at O'Hare International Airport, in an ongoing effort to improve airlines' on-time performance and reduce jet noise in some Chicago neighborhoods.
The incident occurred Saturday afternoon in the lower level of Terminal 1, according to Chicago Police.
Officials were trying to demonstrate how the most innocent-looking items can be filled with explosives or other weapons.
Mayor Emanuel says major airlines at O'Hare have agreed to build up to nine new gates.
Lines have been building at O'Hare International Airport early Friday, as travelers prepared to celebrate the 4th of July weekend, but honoring the nation's independence comes as the nation's airports have been placed on high alert in the wake of a suicide bombing at the airport in Istanbul.
The first flight to touch down in Chicago from Turkey after the suicide bombing at the airport in Istanbul brought many happy reunions, and a sense of relief for travelers who were at first nervous to fly.
Sources said Chicago police officers and aviation police have been concentrating their patrols on drop-off and pick-up areas outside the airport's many entrances.
Among those waiting at the airport was a distressed woman who wasn't sure if her father had made the flight. CBS 2's Brad Edwards reports.
Over the busy Memorial Day weekend, 99 percent of passengers at U.S. airports waited less than 30 minutes and 93 percent waited less than 15 minutes in regular security lines, Peter Neffenger told a hearing of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
Most of the new screeners will be sent to the nation's busiest airports in Chicago, New York, Atlanta, Los Angeles and other hubs, TSA Administrator Peter Neffenger told a House committee.
Responding to public outrage over extremely long waits at O'Hare Airport, the TSA has appointed new leadership in Chicago to handle the problem at one of the world's busiest airports.
The head of the Transportation Security Administration on Friday warned travelers there are no quick fixes to the problems that have led to gargantuan lines at airport security at Chicago's airports as the summer travel season is ramping up.
The head of the Transportation Security Administration will face some tough questions Friday from Mayor Rahm Emanuel, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, members of Congress, and others, as the agency seeks to reduce excruciatingly long wait times at airport security checkpoints.
Some powerful Chicago aldermen want to get rid of TSA officers at Chicago's two airports, and switch to private security officers, in an effort to alleviate the dreadfully long lines at security checkpoints.
