{"id":43037,"date":"2019-09-19T15:26:53","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T07:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=43037"},"modified":"2019-09-19T15:37:50","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T07:37:50","slug":"cockpit-window-crack-forces-aussie-airline-to-make-emergency-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=43037","title":{"rendered":"Cockpit Window Crack Forces Aussie Airline To Make Emergency Landing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SYDNEY, Sept 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8211; A Jetstar passenger plane, travelling between Australia and Indonesia, was forced to turn back halfway on Wednesday, after the pilot noticed a crack in the cockpit windshield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The plane was supposed to travel from Sydney to Denpasar Airport in Bali, but was diverted to Melbourne, where the airline&#8217;s engineering hub is located.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After taking off shortly before 5:00 p.m. local time on Wednesday, the plane travelled for roughly three hours and was over central Australia when the pilot became aware of the issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;While there was no impact to the structural integrity of the aircraft at any time, the decision was made to return to Melbourne as a precaution, where the windscreen could be fixed quickly to prevent further delays,&#8221; a spokesperson for the airline said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having flown for nearly six hours, the plane touched down in Melbourne at around 10:30 p.m. local time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Passengers were provided with emergency accommodation in Melbourne and alternative flights were arranged for the next day (today).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jetstar has apologised to customers for the delay.&#8211; NNN-AGENCIES <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY, Sept 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8211; A Jetstar passenger plane, travelling between Australia and Indonesia, was forced to turn back halfway on Wednesday, after the pilot noticed a crack in the cockpit windshield. The plane was supposed to travel from Sydney to Denpasar Airport in Bali, but was diverted to Melbourne, where the airline&#8217;s engineering hub [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":43042,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,286],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43037"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}