An All Nippon Airways flight was forced to turn back to its departure airport after a crack was discovered in a cockpit window of the Boeing 737 aircraft.
The plane was headed to Toyama Airport but reverted to New Chitose Airport outside Sapporo, Japan, after a crack showed up in the outermost of the four layers of the cockpit window. No injuries or other problems were reported among the 59 passengers and six crew members on board.
“The crack was not something that affected the flight’s control or pressurization,” a spokesperson for ANA told the BBC regarding the crack that was discovered while flying over Hakodate.
This is the second recent incident involving a Boeing 737. Last week, an Alaska Airlines plane, a Boeing 737 Max 9, made an emergency landing at the Portland, Oregon, airport after a midair door plug blow-out, leaving a hole in the left side of the aircraft. While the plane landed safely with 174 passengers and six crew members, six passengers are now suing Boeing for damages.
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The suit, filed Thursday by attorney Daniel Laurence from The Stritmatter Firm, representing the passengers, said the event “physically injured some passengers and emotionally traumatized most if not all aboard.”
The Federal Aviation Administration grounded dozens of those planes when United Airlines and Alaska Airlines employees said they had found loose bolts on multiple grounded Max 9s. The FAA announced Friday that the aircraft will be grounded indefinitely for safety inspections.
