INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
An explanatory note provided to travelers stated the flight was cancelled due to mechanical failure
(File)Beijing: A plane flying from China to Vietnam reversed to make an emergency landing after cracks appeared in a window, simply two
weeks after another airliners cockpit window broke mid-flight in the nation, state media stated Wednesday.The Beijing Capital Airlines
flight bound for Nha Trang in southern Vietnam with 211 people aboard gone back to the eastern city of Hangzhou around an hour after
take-off on Tuesday, the official Xinhua news agency said
After an hour of flight, the airplane suddenly jolted violently, a guest surnamed Zhang told state broadcaster CCTV
An in-flight statement said the aircraft was encountering turbulence
I have actually been on a great deal of flights and I had never ever experienced such strong turbulence
Much of the children in the cabin were frightened and sobbing
Passengers were given 400 yuan ($60) in compensation, CCTV said
Numerous unhappy guests declined to board an alternative flight because they thought about the compensation too low and were upset that the
airline company did not offer an apology, it said.The aircraft was an Airbus A321, according to plane tracking site FlightAware.The head of
aviation for Beijing Capital Airlines told Xinhua that fractures had appeared in a window but not the cockpit window as some passengers had
claimed.But an explanatory note provided to travelers with the airlines official seal, which is being distributed on social media, just
stated the flight was cancelled due to mechanical failure
Neither the airline company, a subsidiary of Chinese conglomerate HNA Group, nor Airbus might be grabbed comment.It was the third
window-related event on an airplane considering that April.A Sichuan Airlines aircraft bring 128 individuals made an emergency landing in
southwest China on May 14 after a cockpit window broke at 32,000 feet (9,800 metres), drawing the co-pilot partly out of the aircraft.The
pilot was hailed a hero for safely landing the flight
Only two people were injured.In April, a woman passed away after being partially drawn out of a Southwest Airlines flight headed to Dallas
from New York when a porthole was shattered mid-flight
Flying shrapnel from an engine explosion broke a window in the Boeing 737 flight with 144 passengers, which was safely landed by the
pilot.(This story has actually not been modified by TheIndianSubcontinent personnel and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
