"user314" (user314)
04/25/2018 at 13:10 • Filed to: Planelopnik, airlines, flybe, Code Brown
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"user314" (user314)
04/25/2018 at 13:10 • Filed to: Planelopnik, airlines, flybe, Code Brown | 3
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What’s more terrifying: the spiderwebbed windscreen, or the vertical image?
A !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! Embraer 195 !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! to Newquay after the windscreen badly cracked at 12,000 feet.
Passenger Ray Ellis, took the photo as he disembarked from the 7.25am flight alongside 91 other passengers, yesterday.
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Ray added: “The plane slowed down a bit, then they made an announcement that there was a crack in the windscreen and they had to return to Newquay.
“No fuss was made, no drama, all very professional.”
A Flybe spokesperson said: “We can confirm that the aircraft operating the flight landed safely at Newquay without incident having returned from airborne following a crack appearing in the outer layer of its windscreen.”
ttyymmnn
> user314
04/25/2018 at 13:37 |
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“No fuss was made, no drama, all very professional.”
Seriously, though, what do you expect?
Urambo Tauro
> user314
04/25/2018 at 14:00 |
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Spiderwebs at 12,000 ft? What is this, Australia?
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user314
> Urambo Tauro
04/25/2018 at 14:28 |
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Airliners don’t escape Australian spider webs.
f86sabre
> user314
04/25/2018 at 14:51 |
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Not much to worry about there. The outer pane is sacrificial, there is then a layer of tough plastic and then the primary inner pane. That is what acts as the main pressure barrier.
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user314
> f86sabre
04/25/2018 at 14:54 |
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Oh yeah, I figured as much. Still rather disconcerting to see