In 2nd Spicejet Incident Today, Windshield Cracks On Gujarat-Mumbai Flight
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All passenger and crew members are safe, the airline said in a statement.
A SpiceJet aircraft, flying from Kandla in Gujarat to Mumbai in Maharashtra, suffered a crack on its outer windshield and made a priority landing in Mumbai. This is the second incident in the day where a SpiceJet plane had to make an unscheduled stop in Karachi.
All passenger and crew members are safe, the airline said in a statement.
"During cruise at FL230, P2 side windshield outerpane cracked. Associated non normal checklist actions were carried out. Pressurization was observed to be normal. Priority landing was carried out and aircraft landed safely at BOM (Bombay)," the airline said in a statement.
Aviation sources have told NDTV that this is the seventh safety-related concern in SpiceJet in less than three weeks. The other incidents, all of which have been brought to the attention of the regulator, including two door warnings, a bird hit, oil leakage from an engine, a pressurisation problem in addition to today's malfunction.
