New incident on a Boeing.
On Monday, the windshield of a 737-8 Max plane cracked mid-flight, at an altitude of more than 8,500 m, reports The Aviation Herald.
Luckily for the passengers and crew, the window did not completely crack, which did not cause depressurization in the aircraft.
The pilot was therefore able to land it safely.
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The incident occurred on a Smartlynx Airlines Malta flight, the Maltese subsidiary of the Latvian company Smartlynx, connecting Istanbul, Turkey, to Stuttgart, Germany.
Half an hour from arrival in the German city, “the crew reported a crack that had developed on one of their windshields,” explains The Aviation Herald, a site specializing in the publication of commercial aviation incident reporting.
The cursed Boeing model
The plane remained on the ground in Stuttgart for five and a half hours before being allowed to take off again.
He was able to make the return flight to Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport.
At midday Monday, he was still there, according to The Aviation Herald website.
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Door torn off in mid-flight on a Boeing 737 Max: poorly screwed bolts on several planes
Even if this incident did not cause damage and is relatively common according to RTL, the setbacks are piling up for the 737 Max model of the American aircraft manufacturer Boeing: two crashes and 346 deaths, in 2018 and 2019, twenty months of immobilization and then stopping production, undrilled holes on the fuselage in August 2023, loose bolts in October 2023 and, most recently, a door torn off in mid-flight at the start of the year.
According to the initial conclusions of the investigation carried out by the Transportation Safety Agency (NTSB), the bolts which were very quickly blamed to explain this incident were simply missing.