Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July

zamalek

I loved playing with fireworks as a kid, and surprisingly have all appendages and senses intact, I even considered pyro as a job - so I definitely get the appeal. I just think it's time that we left it to the professionals. Unless you are engaging in science or physics, I don't see the value in letting them off yourself. ~~It's also weird that America's birthday is celebrated using a Chinese invention.~~ Edit: bad point, I stand corrected.

bluedino

They really should be controlled a lot more - a nearby house was hit by some sort of Roman candle thing and completely burned down the other night. There was at least a lot less "illegal fireworks" when people had the drive two states away to buy them.

cogogo

Off topic but I went to a local town’s medium-sized professional fireworks show this weekend and there were none of those small flash really loud fireworks that shake you to the core. Not even in the grand finale. Oddly they are what I enjoy most. Have they gone out of fashion or do they mess too much with pets?

ButlerianJihad

Fun fact: “Midway” is also the name of an American manufacturer of video and pinball games, and a Pacific theater of war in World War II, the most important victory in US Naval history. (The airport took this name in July 1949, according to the English Wikipedia.) https://web.archive.org/web/20080414001228if_/http://www.fly... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Cup_Soccer_(pinball) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Tigers_(video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rampage_(video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_2:_Judgment_Day_(ar... It’s also the name of a district/neighborhood of San Diego which takes its name from Midway Drive, particularly where it intersects with Rosecrans St. Okay, “Midway” is a lot of things. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midway

OsrsNeedsf2P

Am I the only one who thinks the risks are worth the reward? People are celebrating, kids are having fun. Yes a few people blow their hands off, but are we going to remove everything, one by one, in the name of safety?

userbinator

Delta said Sunday a post-flight inspection showed no damage to the aircraft. Not surprising, as a firework is designed to disintegrate and the outer surface of a plane is not flammable. Bird strikes are probably a higher risk.

linzhangrun

Anti-aircraft artillery...

msisk6

I recently moved to the St. Louis area for a software job at Boeing. I'm actually in a nice quiet neighborhood in St. Charles right under the flight path for planes landing at Lambert Field. The fireworks last night were insane. All around me folks were setting off commercial grade fireworks bursting hundreds of feet in the air. The house was shaking, my dogs were freaking out, one of them had a seizure. The air was filled with smoke and smelled of gun powder. It was one of the craziest things I've ever experienced. Next year I'll definitely be planning an out-of-town vacation for the 4th to some location with firework restrictions. I don't know what the planes were doing; I didn't hear or see any landing with all the smoke and noise.

SilverElfin

I see way too many trashy people setting off commercial grade illegal fireworks in the middle of crowded cities and neighborhoods. It is incredibly disruptive and damaging. Vets are traumatized. Dogs are traumatized. And sleep deprived parents have to repeatedly put babies back to sleep. It is insane that police do not enforce laws against these criminals.

eBombzor

Get rid of fireworks, replace with drone shows. Sick of fireworks and the resulting pollution that comes with them.

petre

When clowns are in charge the country looks like a circus.

monksy

This is more of an issue with operating during the week before and after 4th of July in Chicago. As I'm writing fireworks are going off. Fireworks (display) kinds are illegal in Illinois and there are absolutely no fireworks shot off the before and after 4th of july. Nothing happens nothing to see here.

ggm

Flying into London on November 5 a decade or so ago I was struck by how similar things looked to WW2 bombing run photographs, except it was in colour. A moment of pause. (The Australian War memorial has a museum with the nose of a Lancaster bomber, and they run footage inside it (or a mock up, they have a lot of stuff) projected onto the floor and forward view taken by bombing observation film crews during the raids on Germany)

anshumankmr

Should ideally have an exclusion no fireworks/drones zone near airports esp. on such a day IDK that is just me.

xeyownt

The amount of downvoted posts here is quite indicative.