A BRITISH Airways passenger has thanked the pilot after her flight was forced to divert when the windscreen cracked mid-air.
Traveller Caroline Edmunds tweeted a photo of the aircraft’s shattered windshield saying the experience was “terrifying”.
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Caroline was on the BA624 flight heading to Rhodes, Greece, from London on Saturday but the incident forced the pilot to perform an emergency diversion to Athens.
She tweeted: “A big ‘thank you’ to the @British_Airways pilot who got us safely diverted to Athens after our plane’s windscreen broke … terrifying.
“Now happily waiting for another not so dramatic flight to Rhodes!”
The airline arranged for a relief aircraft to transfer passengers to Rhodes later the same day.
A spokesperson for British Airways said: “Due to a technical issue, the flight was diverted to Athens and landed safely.
“We apologised to the customers and a replacement aircraft was arranged to get them to their final destination.”
It remains unknown what caused the windscreen to break.
It comes as a passenger captured the shocking moment a window on the plane he was travelling on appeared to crack sparking panic onboard.
TikTok user Tristan was flying onboard a Poland Airlines flight from Warsaw, Poland, to New York’s John F Kennedy Airport when the horror incident took place.
Last month a woman was shocked to find she was sitting next to a “smashed” plane window during her flight.
Thankfully it was not all as it seemed – although some people said they would still be terrified.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/19915579/british-airways-flight-forced-divert-windscreen-breaks/
Originally published at Sydney News HQ
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