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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Robert Herguth

Driving vehicles on O’Hare Airport runways has landed suspensions for 5 city workers

The location of a runway mishap at O’Hare Airport in 2020 that was blamed on a city worker. (Chicago Department of Aviation)

This past summer, a city of Chicago employee who works on the airfield at O’Hare Airport drove a vehicle into what’s called a “runway safety area” — and proceeded to do something quite unsafe.

Without clearance, he lingered there as a Korean Air jetliner took off and “overflew his vehicle” at more than 200 miles an hour.

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