CHICAGO — Shonah Grant and her husband just returned from a Thursday evening stroll through their Jefferson Park neighborhood when they noticed something in their yard.
“It was totally bizarre,” Grant said of the incident, which happened about 6:45 p.m.
“I saw something in the yard. I thought, well, that’s weird, I never saw that before. It looked like a (tire) rim.”
They walked closer and then saw more debris in the yard. “Then, there was a tire by our front porch!” Grant said.
She and her husband assumed it was garbage somebody had dumped, so they lugged the heavy wreckage into their alley, thinking the scrappers would take it.
“I just felt puzzled by the whole thing,” she said.
A little later, while in her kitchen making dinner, it dawned on her.
“Oh my God, I think it’s an airplane tire,” Grant said.
She called a friend, a retired airplane mechanic, who came right over.
“That’s definitely from a plane tire. It looks like a smaller plane,” he confirmed.
The couple’s four children were all home at the time.
“Two them heard a very loud bang,” Grant said.
After speaking to her neighbors, she learned the wheel likely hit her neighbor’s yard first, just on the edge of her sidewalk, going into her backyard, Grant said.
“Then, as it broke apart, it fell into our yard.”
“It was crazy — it fell literally between the two houses,” Grant said.
As they were moving the debris back to where they found it, Chicago police officers got there.
“Police came up and so then we just dropped them, and they didn’t want us to move them again,” Grant said.
The officers also told the Grants a plane had reported it lost a wheel.
As of about 7:45 p.m., several houses in the area had been cordoned off and multiple police officers were on the scene as well as at least two television stations. “We’re waiting for the FAA to get here,” Grant said.
Grant feels grateful it did not hit their home or injure anybody. “It would have gone through the roof if it hit the roof.”
“It is a little freaky because where we live, we’re right in a flight path to O’Hare. We have massive planes that fly over,” Grant said. “Thank God it was a small plane, but it’s really surreal.”
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