My uncle was Fire Chief in Itasca, IL. when there was a terrible plane crash just outside of O'Hare Airport. The Deadliest Crash: Flight 191 and its Maintenance Legacy | Aviation Maintenance Magazine
The Deadliest Crash: Flight 191 and its Maintenance Legacy | Aviation Maintenance Magazine He and fire crews from all over Chicagoland were called in to help with the aftermath. When he told me about his experiences you could see how traumatic the experience was for them. This is still the worst airline accident in the US. My uncle passed in 1994 while I was helping take of another uncle up to when he could get into a nursing home a few hundred feet away . The fire crews in the Chicagoland area rode their fire engines past my uncle's house. The uncle I was helping lived a few houses down the street from the former Itasca Fire Chief.