Japan’s All Nippon Airways Boeing 737-800 Flight Turns Around Due to Window Crack
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Key Points
- ANA Boeing 737-800 flight returned to Sapporo-New Chitose due to a cockpit window crack.
- No injuries reported among the 59 passengers and six crew members.
- Incident did not involve Boeing 737 Max 9, which is under scrutiny and grounding for safety checks.
Summary
A domestic flight of Japan's All Nippon Airways (ANA) on a Boeing 737-800 turned back to its departure airport after a crack was found on the cockpit window. The aircraft returned to Sapporo-New Chitose airport instead of continuing to Toyama airport. No injuries were reported among the 59 passengers and six crew members. The incident involved the outermost layer of the cockpit window and did not affect flight control or pressurization. This aircraft model is distinct from the Boeing 737 Max 9, which has faced recent scrutiny and grounding by U.S. aviation regulators for safety checks.
A domestic flight of Japan’s All Nippon Airways returned to its departure airport on Saturday after a crack was found on the cockpit window of the Boeing 737-800 aircraft midair, a spokesperson for the airline said.
Flight 1182 was en route to Toyama airport but headed back to the Sapporo-New Chitose airport after the crack was found on the outermost of four layers of windows surrounding the cockpit, the spokesperson said, adding there were no injuries reported among the 59 passengers and six crew.
The aircraft was not one of Boeing’s 737 Max 9 airplanes. These have been in the spotlight after a cabin panel broke off a new Alaska Airlines jet in mid-air last week.
“The crack was not something that affected the flight’s control or pressurisation,” the ANA spokesperson said.
The U.S. aviation regulator on Friday extended the grounding of Boeing 737 Max 9 airplanes indefinitely for new safety checks and announced it will tighten oversight of Boeing itself.
(Editing by Toby Chopra and Frances Kerry)
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