The manufacturer is already in turmoil in the USA, where the door of a plane came loose in mid-flight.
An All Nippon Airways (ANA) Boeing 737-800 operating a domestic flight in Japan returned to its departure point on Saturday (January 13) after a crack was discovered in the cockpit window, a spokesman said. Japanese airline word.
Flight 1182 was en route to Toyama Airport but turned around and returned to Sapporo-New Chitose Airport after a crack was detected in the outermost part of the four layers of windows surrounding the cockpit, the spokesman said, adding that it was among the There are 59 passengers, no injuries and six crew members. “The crack had no impact on the control or pressurization of the device,” he added.
All 737 MAX 9s on the ground
The FAA (Federal Aviation Administration), the American aviation regulator, decided on Friday, January 12, to extend the grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX 9 indefinitely to carry out new safety checks and announced its intention to supervise through the aviation group itself.
Earlier this week, part of the fuselage of an Alaska Airlines ALK.N Boeing 737 MAX 9 broke off mid-flight, forcing the crew to turn back.
The plane had to land urgently and no one was injured, but several passengers filed a complaint against the manufacturer, admitting a “mistake.”