Emergency slide falls from United Airlines fight, lands in Chicago backyard

It wasn’t a bird or a plane hurtling from the sky, although it did fall from the latter. The Federal Aviation Administration said they are investigating after a Chicago resident found an aircraft emergency escape slide in his backyard just after noon on Monday. The inflatable slide, which is believed to have fallen from a United Airlines flight from Zurich, Switzerland, fell onto the roof of a northwest Chicago home, which suffered minor damage from the impact. “My father-in-law and my son are having lunch in the kitchen, and they...