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Published January 13, 2024, 7:33 p.m. ET
A Boeing plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Japan on Saturday after the crew discovered a crack in the cockpit window.
The break was found in the outermost of four layers of windows around the cockpit, an All Nippon Airways spokesman said.
The pilot made a U-turn and returned to Sapporo-New Chitose Airport. When the crack was discovered, the plane was on its approximately 1.5-hour journey to Toyama.
Fortunately, there were no reported injuries among the 59 passengers and six crew members.
“The tear had no impact on the control or pressure of the flight,” the spokesman said.
The plane was a 737-800 aircraft, not the 737 MAX 9 aircraft that made headlines last week when a cabin panel on an Alaska Airlines plane popped off just minutes into the flight, a catastrophic failure , which miraculously caused no deaths.
The door plug was ripped from the plane and fell 16,000 feet into the backyard of a Portland, Oregon, teacher.
Federal investigators probing the near-catastrophic rupture of the hull plate are examining the possibility that the hardware designed to secure it was never installed in the first place.
The Japanese All-Nippon Airways flight was forced to return to the departure airport after discovering a crack in the cockpit window. AFP via Getty Images The break was found in the outermost of four layers of windows surrounding the cockpit (not pictured). AFP/Getty Images
United Airlines reported finding loose screws and “installation issues” on some Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft following the incident.
The National Transportation Safety Board grounded all Boeing 737 MAX 9 planes on Friday as it said it would impose stricter safety controls and increase oversight of the company itself.
Growing allegations of inadequate on-site quality and technical support for its suppliers, as well as questionable safety concerns at Spirit Aerosystems' factories where the 737 MAX planes are built, may also shed light on the wild incident, the manufacturer's employers told the Wall Street Journal.
Boeing 737 MAX jets were grounded after a door plug ripped off an Alaska Airlines flight shortly after takeoff. via Portal
“It's a well-known fact at Spirit that if you make too much noise and cause too much trouble, you'll get transferred,” said Joshua Dean, a former Spirit quality inspector who said he was fired after noting incorrectly drilled holes in plane fuselages had, told the newspaper.
“That doesn’t mean you completely ignore things, but they don’t want you to find everything and write it down.”
All Boeing MAX jets were grounded for two years after two crashes involving Indonesian airlines Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines in 2018 and 2019 killed 346 people.
With post wires
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