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Windshield Crack Lands Taiwanese Passengers in Manila

What: Malaysian Airlines Boeing 737-400 en route from Sabah (Kota Kinabalu) to Kaohsiung International Airport
Where: Manila
When: April 16, 2011 5:30 p.m.
Who: 128 passengers
Why: While over Philippine airspace, a member of the crew found a cracked cockpit window that caused pressurization problems.

The plane diverted to Manila and made a safe landing. The passengers, mostly from Taiwan, had to overnight in Manila but were provided hotel accommodations. Intervention from the Taiwanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs was apparently required.

On the company website, the airline has a press release about its new A330-300 but does not make reference to its plane down in Manila.

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