Living close to an airport has its drawbacks, but this is a new one.

One Chicago family got an unexpected gift on Monday when a plane flying from Switzerland lost its evacuation slide while on its descent to O'Hare International Airport.

Patrick Devitt's two-year-old son and father-in-law were in his house having lunch when they heard the loud crash and saw the crumpled-up emergency slide laying in their backyard.

The slide hit the side of the house, damaging part of the roof and a window screen and crushing some plants in the backyard.

Devitt arrived home shortly after the slide fell. He and his father-in-law inspected the foreign object and called 911.

Devitt told CBS News Chicago about that call:

The lady that we spoke to at the Department of Aviation had said to us, 'Well how do you know it's from an airplane?' 'Well, because there's a giant slide in our backyard that's bigger than a car, ma'am. Of course, it's from an airplane.'

United Airlines didn't notice the missing slide until after the plane landed, just a few minutes after the slide had landed in Devitt's yard.

Thankfully, the Devitt family and neighbors were unharmed. Except of course for the psychological toll that this is going to take on the two-year-old who probably thinks airplane equipment falling from the sky is a normal occurrence.

Devitt said,

I'm stunned a little bit. I'm just glad that everybody is safe and okay. Just seeing that in my backyard, like wow. This really happened. It fell off of an airplane and landed in our backyard.