This account comes from Drew Smith:

Part of the area where Flight 191 crashed once housed several Quonset huts from the old Orchard Field Airport, which is where O'Hare's "ORD" designation came from. One of those huts was home to Andy’s Auto Repair. In Des Plaines, my father ran Lee’s Brake and Clutch, an auto parts and machine shop. Andy was a regular customer, and I used to make deliveries for my dad to his place. On that fateful day, my father had even made a delivery to Andy earlier in the morning. Fast forward to 2009, the year my dad passed away. While cleaning out the shop, my brother showed me an old invoice hanging on the wall, the kind we used for those deliveries. It brought back a flood of memories from that day.

I was a high school senior at the time of the crash, just about to graduate. I had completed the Fire Cadet program with the Mount Prospect Fire Department. Back then, you could help out by buffing or fanning a fire with your own gear and find something to do. But this time, it was different. Once the main fire was under control, there wasn’t much left to work with.

The crash site was within the Elk Grove Township Fire Protection District, which had only just started operating as a full-time fire department in January of that same year—less than six months in service. I was passing by DPFD Station 3 (now known as Station 63) when I saw the emergency header. The units from 61, 71, and 81 were still in quarters. I thought it might be a tank farm fire, since there had been a few of those in the late '70s. I turned onto Mount Prospect Road and headed toward the scene. As I got closer, I realized it wasn’t a tank fire. I pulled up near the Chicago Police Department's K-9 facility on Touhy Avenue, just across from the crash site. I parked on the opposite side of the road and saw more smoke than I’d ever seen before—but it didn’t last long.

To this day, I remember seeing the ARFF rigs (then called CFR—Crash Fire Rescue) from O’Hare coming in fast. They barely slowed down as they drove through the chain-link fence surrounding the K-9 facility and began discharging their agent. When the smoke cleared, it was a scorched wasteland—Quonset huts, vehicles, and most of the plane reduced to a heap. Only a few large parts of the aircraft remained. I won’t describe what I saw of the human remains, but it was deeply disturbing.

I still have that original invoice, preserved among many other keepsakes. I never found out why my dad kept it on the wall for so long.

Interestingly, there was another Flight 191 incident at DFW in 1985. In that crash, 27 of the 164 people on board survived.

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