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Cracked Window Prompts Thai Airways Flight to Make Emergency Landing at Bali

ThaiThai Airways flight TG467 en-route from Sydney, Australia to Bangkok, Thailand, made an emergency landing at Bali’s Ngurah Rai International Airport in Indonesia, at 4:50 p.m. on August 12.

The emergency landing was made after a crack was noticed in the cockpit window of the Boeing 747 which had 273 passengers and 21 crew members aboard at the time.

The pilot, Ivtas Dejkunjorn, safely landed the plane and no one was hurt.

An airport spokeswoman said, “Passengers have already been cleared through immigration and have been put up in hotels near the airport for the night.”

Thai Airways said that they are sending a team to Bali to investigate the incident and for overseeing the replacement of cracked window.

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