Another serious incident with Boeing mid-flight: the window of a plane belonging to the Japanese airline ANA burst

Japanese airline ANA’s Boeing 737 was forced to return to the airport this Saturday where it departed in Japan after a crack was found in one of the plane’s cabin windows, Kyodo News reported.

Flight 1182, bound for Toyama Airport, was carrying a total of 59 passengers and six crew, which had to return to Sapporo-New Chitose Airport.

According to the airline, no passengers or crew were injured in the incident.

The incident happened around 11:20 local time – 3:20 am, Spanish peninsula time – when the flight crew noticed a crack in the cabin window, so the decision was made to return to the airport. Departure for security problem.

This is the second serious incident with a Boeing plane mid-flight in just over a week, after last weekend another Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-9 MAX suffered one of its emergency door latches. And he was forced to create an emergency. Landing shortly after take off in Portland, Oregon.

The incident led US authorities to ground a large portion of their fleet of Boeing 737-9 MAX aircraft “until they are safe”.

Similarly, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced this week the launch of an investigation into the company and noted that it would take “significant steps” to immediately increase oversight of Boeing’s manufacturing and production.

In this sense, the United States will carry out a special monitoring of the incidents of the Boeing 737-9 MAX, assess the safety risks to the authority in charge of quality control and study the option of transferring these functions to institutions. Independent