(WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- We're learning new details about the response to the emergency landing of a single-engine plane on the Veterans Tollway more than two weeks ago.
Recordings of 9-1-1 calls and emergency dispatch transmissions have been released from the Jan. 10 landing of a Beech airplane on the tollway near Bolingbrook.
One of the first callers dialed 9-1-1 as he pulled over to check on the pilot.
"I'm sitting right in front of (the plane) right now," he told the operator, "and ... I think it's just the pilot ... and he's movin' around with the door open."
Seconds later, he added: "He seems fine, he just got out."
As the caller walked over to talk the pilot, the operator asked: "Can you ask him, did he know what happened?" a 9-1-1 operator asked.
After a pause, the caller reported, "He said the engine just quit."
No one was hurt and no vehicles were damaged when the plane landed just south of the I-55 interchange, reportedly during a flight from central Wisconsin to Brookeridge Airpark in Downers Grove.
The pilot has not spoken publicly about what happened.
The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating.
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