{"id":744659,"date":"2026-07-05T13:51:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T13:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/744659\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T13:51:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T13:51:13","slug":"delta-plane-struck-by-firework-landing-at-midway-airport-nbc-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/744659\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta plane struck by firework landing at Midway Airport \u2013 NBC Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Delta flight arriving at Chicago&#8217;s Midway International Airport on the Fourth of July reportedly made contact with a firework, the airline said.<\/p>\n<p>Delta Air Lines Flight 1076 departed Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport at 7:36 p.m. ET and landed at Midway Airport at 8:38 p.m. CT, according to the flight-tracking website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flightaware.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FlightAware.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Radio communication between the cabin crew and air traffic control captured the moments after the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTower, we just had a firework hit our plane, Delta 1076, we&#8217;re continuing,&#8221; air traffic control audio revealed. &#8220;We just heard a bang on the plane, so we&#8217;ll have to look at it when we get to the gate. We&#8217;re just hoping it was just a mortar that went off underneath, but definitely felt a big bang.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft landed safely, and the incident didn&#8217;t result in an emergency landing, airline officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The plane was undergoing an evaluation after arrival. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Delta flight arriving at Chicago&#8217;s Midway International Airport on the Fourth of July reportedly made contact with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[4324,28],"class_list":["post-744659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-airlines","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}