A Boeing 737-800 operated by Japan’s All Nippon Airways (ANA) returned to its original airport on Saturday after a crack was discovered in a window, according to airline and media reports.
About half an hour after taking off from New Chitose Airport, which serves the northern Japanese city of Sapporo, domestic ANA Flight 1182, with 59 passengers and six crew on board, was en route to Toyama Airport (west coast). ), was forced to return when a crack was discovered in the window, Kyodo news agency reported.
There were no injuries and the airline replaced the damaged window, according to an ANA official quoted by Kyodo.
The Boeing 737 model in question, the 737-800, is not the same as the 737-MAX 9, which was grounded by the FAA following an incident on board the plane last week. Alaska Airlines plane.
Nearly 5,000 meters above sea level, the Alaska Airlines plane lost a panel that was used to cover an opening designed to accommodate an additional emergency door – a common measure on aircraft flying low-density passengers.
The plane was forced to return to the city of Portland (Oregon, USA), from where it had taken off a few minutes earlier, while no serious injuries were reported, despite the depressurization of the cabin.
The FAA’s decision to ground all Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft is not as serious as the one that grounded all 737 MAX variants in 2019 after two accidents that killed more than 300 people, but the fact that airline operators MAX 9 aircraft’s admission that it had found loose parts in these panels has once again put the American aviation giant in a difficult situation.
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Source: CM Jornal
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