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A flight from the Netherlands to Brazil on Boxing Day was forced to flip over the Atlantic Ocean thanks to a broken windshield in the cabin.
KLM flight KL705 had been more than four hours into the 12-hour trip when a “loud bang” was heard, including from some passengers, reports the Herald of aviation.
The outer glass of one of the windshields had cracked.
The airline said in a statement that at no time did the pilots or passengers of the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner have problems.
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The aircraft involved was a KLM Boeing Dreamliner (file photo).
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“After 4.5 hours of flight, it was decided to return to Amsterdam to repair a technical problem. The safety of the passengers was not at risk. The plane landed safely at Schiphol around 8pm local time. The passengers boarded a new plane and continued their journey at 8.30 pm local time, ”said an airline spokesman. The independent.
This is not the first time that a broken windshield has caused a detour.
In July this year, a crack in the cockpit window of a Chinese domestic flight forced pilots to make a quick descent and an emergency landing, while a couple of years earlier an Icelandair flight from Orlando, USA. In the US, it was forced to make an emergency landing in Canada after a “crack” was found in one of the aircraft’s windshields.
In addition, the co-pilot of a China Sichuan Airlines flight was also nearly sucked out of his plane after a part of the cockpit windshield broke in 2018.
