“Air Wisconsin Flight 6181 struck a tug while approaching the gate at Chicago O’Hare International Airport around 7:35 p.m.

A 64-year-old aircraft tug driver has been left with injuries to his head and lower body after he was struck by the wing of an aircraft in Chicago on Feb. 1, police confirmed to PEOPLE.

The collision flipped the tug vehicle and its driver, identified as a 64-year-old man employed by United, became trapped.

One man was hospitalized after the wing of an aircraft crashed into a tug truck at Chicago O'Hare International Airport on ...

The driver of an aircraft tug was critically injured when the vehicle flipped over after colliding with the wing of an ...

A 64-year-old airport tug driver was critically injured after colliding with an American Eagle-operated aircraft at O’Hare ...

Upon contact, the tug vehicle flipped over and pinned its 64-year-old male driver ... The incident at the Chicago airport occurred just days after another one that led to the death of an American ...

It's the first test of the airport's "use-it-or-lose-it" formula adopted in the lease deal that ushered in the $6.1 billion ...