A Boeing plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Japan on Saturday, after crew members discovered a crack in the cockpit window.
The crack was found in the outermost of four layers of windows surrounding the cockpit, an All Nippon Airways spokesman said.
The pilot turned around and returned to Sapporo-New Chitose airport. The flight had traveled about 1.5 hours to Toyama when the crack was discovered.
Fortunately, no injuries were reported among the 59 passengers and six crew members.
“The crack is not something that affects control or flight pressure,” the spokesman said.
The plane was a 737-800, not the 737 MAX 9 that made headlines last week when a cabin panel blew up an Alaska Airlines jet just minutes into its flight, a massive failure that miraculously resulted in zero fatalities.
A door plug detached from the plane and plunged 16,000 feet into a Portland, Oregon school teacher’s backyard.
Federal investigators investigating a near-catastrophic fuselage panel explosion are looking into the possibility that hardware that should have kept it safe was never installed in the first place.
Japan’s All Nippon Airways flight had to return to the departure airport after discovering a crack in the cockpit window. AFP via Getty Images The crack was found in the outermost of the four layers of windows that surround the cockpit (not pictured). AFP/Getty Images
United Airlines reported finding loose bolts and “installation issues” on several Boeing 737 MAX 9 planes after the incident.
The National Transportation Safety Board grounded all Boeing 737 MAX 9 planes on Friday as it announced it would mandate stricter safety inspections and tighten oversight of the company itself.
Claims of inadequate on-site quality and technical support to its suppliers, as well as questionable safety concerns at the Spirit Aerosystems plant where the 737 MAX aircraft are built may also shed some light on the wild incident, employers at the manufacturer told Wall Street Journal.
A Boeing 737 MAX jet has been grounded after a door plug dislodged from an Alaska Airlines flight shortly after takeoff. via REUTERS
“It’s known at Spirit that if you make too much noise and cause too many problems, you get overwhelmed,” Joshua Dean, a former Spirit quality auditor who said he was fired after flagging misdrilled holes in the fuselage, told the paper.
“It doesn’t mean you ignore it completely, 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 on Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines Indonesia in 2018 and 2019 killed 346 people.
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