New incident for Boeing: Cockpit crack forces plane to turn around in Japan

Boeing is certainly going from crisis to crisis. This Saturday, January 13, a flight of Japanese airline All Nippon Airways, which was on a domestic route, had to be diverted after a crack was found in the cockpit of the Boeing 737-800. The crack, Reuters news agency clarified, was identified outside the windows surrounding the cockpit.

The flight, which took off from Chitose airport at 10:47 a.m. local time (2:47 a.m. in France), had to turn around to land again in the same spot a little less than half an hour later. None of the 59 people on board were injured in the maneuver. “The crack did not affect the control or pressurization of the flight,” an airline spokesperson added.

A door closes mid-flight

Boeing has suffered a series of disappointments since one of its planes – a Boeing 737 MAX 9, different from the one mentioned above – shut down during an Alaska Airlines flight from Portland (Oregon) to Ontario (California). The incident resulted in only minor injuries and the aircraft was able to land safely at its home airport.

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The next day, the American Aviation Agency (FAA) ordered an immediate inspection of 171 of Boeing’s 737 MAX 9 aircraft worldwide, which led to the cancellation of more than a thousand flights.