Oct 23, 2007 7:54 am US/Central
Luggage Dropped In Flight Found In Chicago
CHICAGO (CBS) ―
Monday, someone found a piece of luggage that fell from the cargo hold of a plane while it was departing Midway Airport Sunday. It turned up in a train yard in Bedford Park, near the end of the runway.
CBS station WBBM-TV reports one other bag is still missing.
Lost luggage is the bane of every air traveler's experience. It's bad enough when bags get lost on the ground, but Sunday, on a Delta flight from Midway, bags got lost in flight, literally falling right out of the plane.
"After you give them your bags, you feel your bags are secure. That's ridiculous. That's unacceptable," Delta passenger Denote Robinson said.
"It just leaves you to wonder how safe it is and what's actually going on when you're traveling," Delta passenger Angela Armond added.
The lost bags fell from Delta Connection flight 4718. The twin jet commuter plane left Midway at 9:54 am. Soon after, pilots noticed a loss of cabin pressure. They made an emergency landing back at Midway at 10:26 am and found one of the two cargo doors had opened, allowing two bags to fall out.
"That's scary. It should be more secured, more secured than that. Shouldn't nothing be flying off the plane. Shouldn't be no doors open. Everything should be secure," Delta passenger Phyllis Abram said.
People who live and work near Midway, with constant flights overhead, have dealt with falling airplane debris before like that infamous frozen toilet waste, but they've never had to deal with luggage falling like rain.
"You'd be driving by and luggage hits you... that would be real crazy," area resident Martin Vasquez said.
"You get what you pay for. I see some of those kids over there and I wouldn't want them to touch my luggage," Rory Gallegos said.
After the emergency landing, all of the passengers were assigned to another flight. No one was injured.
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