CPD Helicopter Makes Emergency Landing in Oak Lawn: Watch

Oak Lawn, IL, June 13, 2016 -- One of the Chicago Police Department’s helicopters made an emergency landing Sunday evening in the student parking lot at Oak Lawn Community High School.
Officer Hector Alfaro, of Chicago Police News Affairs, said the helicopter was experiencing power problems, forcing it to land on the high school campus around 6:25 p.m.
An Oak Lawn resident named Mike sent a video of the chopper as it came swooping over Austin Avenue:
“I literally thought I was about to witness a helicopter crash that's how fast it came out of the sky,” Mike recounted.
“I was driving down Austin and I hear the loud chopper sound and suddenly see the CPD chopper going lower and lower by the second then it disappeared and I expected to see a plume of smoke and fire. It’s definitely not something you see every day.”

Watch Mike's eyewitness video.

CPD tweeted that the chopper “made a precautionary landing in an Oak Lawn parking lot after a warning light came on. No injuries or property damage.”

As of 11:30 pm. Sunday, the chopper was still sitting in the OLCHS parking lot. An Oak Lawn police cruiser was parked next to it, Mike said.

"It's definitely not something you see every day."