Boeing flight returns to Japan airport due to cockpit window crack
Al Jazeera
The aircraft is not one of Boeing’s 737 MAX 9 planes which have been in the spotlight after Alaska Airlines blowout.
A domestic flight of Japan’s All Nippon Airways (ANA) has returned to its departure airport after a crack was found on the cockpit window of the Boeing 737-800 aircraft midair.
Flight 1182 was headed to Toyama airport in Japan 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, a spokesperson for the airline said on Saturday.
There were no injuries reported among the 59 passengers and six crew, the airline added.
“The crack was not something that affected the flight’s control or pressurisation,” the ANA spokesperson said.
This is the second incident involving a Boeing aircraft in a week.
