This story comes from Drew Smith:

Part of the area where Flight 191 crashed was once home to several Quonset huts that were part of the old Orchard Field airfield—where O’Hare Airport gets its "ORD" code. One of those huts housed Andy’s Auto Repair, a place I remember well. 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 shop. On the day of the crash, my father had just dropped off a delivery to Andy.

Fast forward to 2009, the year my father passed away. While cleaning out the shop, my brother showed me an old invoice hanging on a small clipboard. It was one of those delivery receipts we used back then. That moment brought back a flood of memories about that day in May 1979.

I was a high school senior at the time, about to graduate. I had completed the Fire Cadet program through High School District 214 with the Mount Prospect Fire Department. Back then, you could get involved by using your own gear and helping out however you could. But this time, it was different. Once the main fire was under control, there wasn’t much left to do.

The crash site was in the Elk Grove Township Fire Protection District, which had only been operational for less than six months when the accident happened. I was driving past DPFD Station 3 (now Station 63) and saw the emergency response header. Units 61, 71, and 81 were still in quarters. At first, I thought it might be a tank farm fire, like the ones that had happened in the late 1970s. But as I turned onto Mount Prospect Road, I realized something was wrong. The rigs from Station 3 were rushing past me, heading toward the scene.

As I got closer, I still didn’t know what had happened, but I knew 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.

Then I saw the ARFF units (called CFR back then) from O’Hare coming in fast. They barely slowed down as they drove through the chain-link fence surrounding the K-9 facility, releasing their fire suppressant. When the smoke cleared, it was a complete disaster—Quonset huts, vehicles, and debris all reduced to a heap. The fuselage was nearly gone. I won’t describe what I saw of the human remains, but it was deeply unsettling.

I still have that original invoice saved among my 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, where 27 of the 164 people on board survived.

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