United Airlines Flight 553 crashed on approach to Midway Airport 50 years ago Thursday, killing 45 people.
The Boeing 737 crashed into several homes near 70th Place and Lawndale Avenue, as well as neighboring streets.
Just 12 years old at the time, Cotter had just returned home from school. He was changing clothes to go play hockey when he heard a plane that sounded way too low. Five seconds later, United Flight 553 slammed into the neighborhood, killing 43 of the 61 people on board. Two others on the ground also died.
Besides Cotter's two neighbors who were killed, the wife of a Watergate organizer, a CBS News national correspondent and a Chicago Congressman from the West Side were among the 43 people on board who died. "The right wing struck a large portion, about 14 feet struck back of the house, fortunately it fell off and that is what spared my mother and I," he said.
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