Boeing 737 Max windshield cracked during flight

New incident with Boeing. On Monday, the windshield of a 737-8 Max aircraft cracked in flight at an altitude of more than 8,500 m, The Aviation Herald reports. Fortunately for the passengers and crew, the window was not completely cracked, which did not lead to depressurization of the aircraft. Thus, the pilot was able to land safely.

The incident occurred on a Smartlynx Airlines Malta flight, the Maltese branch of the Latvian company Smartlynx, which was flying from Istanbul (Turkey) to Stuttgart (Germany). Half an hour after arriving in the German city, “the crew reported a crack in one of the windshields,” explains The Aviation Herald, a website that specializes in reporting incidents in commercial aviation.

Damn Boeing model

The plane remained on the ground in Stuttgart for five and a half hours before it was cleared to take off again. He managed to make a return flight to Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen International Airport. It was still there at noon Monday, according to The Aviation Herald website.

Even if this incident did not cause damage and, according to RTL, is a relatively common occurrence, bad luck is piling up for US aircraft manufacturer Boeing’s 737 Max model: two crashes and 346 deaths in 2018 and 2019, twenty months of immobilization and then a production halt, undrilled holes in the fuselage in August 2023, loose bolts in October 2023 and, most recently, a door torn off in flight earlier in the year. According to the initial findings of an investigation by the Transportation Safety Agency (NTSB), the bolts that were quickly blamed to explain the incident were simply missing.