On May 7, a netizen broke the news that a Boeing B737 passenger plane of Jiangxi Airlines had suddenly broken the cockpit windshield and burst into flames at a height of 10,000 meters during a trip to Zhengzhou, Henan Province, from Korla, Xinjiang, on the 4th, and the plane then landed at the airport in Gansu. The statement said that the B737-800 aircraft windshield consists of multiple layers of glass, the rupture occurred for the outer glass, the outer glass is not a structural layer, only to provide rigidity, hardness, to prevent scratches, bird strikes and foreign object damage. And the aircraft windshield to withstand the structural forces of the middle layer and the inner layer are intact.
Jiangxi Airlines issued a statement on the 8th said that recently, Jiangxi Airlines a B737-800 aircraft flying from Korla to Zhengzhou flight, in the cruise phase at an altitude of 10,100 meters, the cockpit left front windshield outer glass suddenly encountered a rupture. The crew immediately reported to ATC and the company. In this case, according to the disposal procedure of this aircraft type, the aircraft could continue to the destination. In order to ensure safety, the company and the crew decided to take more prudent measures, and under the command of ATC, descended the altitude and landed safely at the nearby Lanzhou Zhongchuan Airport. The company then arranged for the passengers on board to take another flight to Zhengzhou the following day.
The statement also said that aircraft maintenance and flight manuals have strict inspection and release standards for aircraft windshields. According to the manual instructions, the B737 windshield consists of multiple layers of glass, the breakage is the outer glass, not the structural layer, not the force layer, only to strengthen the hardness, to prevent bird strikes and foreign object damage. The windshield of the aircraft involved in the middle and inner layers of the force structure, after the incident are intact.
According to mainland media reports, the pilot of the flight involved in the short-circuiting of the windshield on fire was filmed at the time, when the passenger plane was flying, the open fire suddenly flared up, the windshield then broke, the pilot shouted in alarm.
In recent years, China’s civil aviation sector, there have been a number of windshield problems and return to flight. The most famous one is the Sichuan Airlines 514 incident. on May 14, 2018, Chongqing to Lhasa, Sichuan Airlines flight 3U8633 was cruising normally at an altitude of 9,800 meters when suddenly, the windshield on the right side of the cockpit burst and fell off, the cockpit instantly lost pressure, and the temperature plummeted to minus 40 degrees Celsius. The captain of the flight, Liu Chuanjian, responded calmly and landed the plane safely 34 minutes later.
On the evening of July 6, 2020, a Ruili Airlines 737 aircraft was damaged by a windscreen arc discharge, causing the aircraft to make an emergency descent and safely land at Chongqing Airport.
In October 2020, a Tibet Airlines Airbus, flying from Sanya to Chengdu on flight TV9822, made a landing in Guiyang after a crack in the windscreen was discovered.
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