Chicago Midway International Airport safety profile
40 recorded occurrences at or near Chicago Midway International Airport (1987–2024): 11 at the airport, 29 nearby; 2 fatal, 4 fatalities.
What happens most
Runway incursions
The FAA Runway Safety database records 293 runway incursions at this airport, including 6 serious (Category A/B) events. Full runway incursion history.
Notable investigated occurrences
- 2014-11-18 — Central Air Southwest (1 fatalities) — 3.7 km
- 2024-09-25 — American Eagle — 0.0 km
- 2019-08-09 — T&G Flying Club — 0.0 km
- 2019-07-27 — 0.7 km
- 2018-07-08 — Eurocopter EC135 P1, Pentastar Aviation Charter, Inc — 13.2 km
- 2018-06-21 — CHINA AIRLINES LTD — 0.0 km
- 2015-11-03 — Air Choice One — 7.7 km
- 2015-02-18 — American Eagle Airlines — 0.0 km
- 2015-02-16 — Solutions Air Charter — 0.0 km
- 2013-10-02 — Sun Aero Helicopters INC — 0.0 km
- 2013-03-06 — Airbus 330 — 15.9 km
- 2011-12-01 — Boeing 737-700, AIR CLAYCO INC — 1.7 km
Runways
- 13L/31R: 6,522 ft, CON, lighted
- 04R/22L: 6,445 ft, PEM, lighted
- 04L/22R: 5,507 ft, ASP, lighted
- 13R/31L: 3,859 ft, CON, lighted
Weather patterns
- Fog: 28.196 days/year
- Thunderstorms: 46.394 days/year
- Snow: 53.493 days/year
- Crosswind >15kt: 0.092% of observations
- Crosswind >25kt: 0% of observations
Counts reflect occurrences geo-attached within 25 km of the airport from our investigation-record corpus; they are not a complete history and are not a safety ranking. A recorded occurrence decades ago says little about operations today.