CNN
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An Austrian Airways airplane was badly broken by hail when the airborne jet hit a “thunderstorm cell” Sunday, Austrian Airways stated.
A storm cell is an air mass that incorporates up and down drafts, which may trigger turbulence when a airplane encounters one.
The airplane with 173 passengers and 6 crew onboard from Palma de Mallorca in Spain to Vienna, Austria landed safely at Vienna.
A mayday emergency name was made through the flight, says Austrian.
Social media exhibits the airplane’s nostril was significantly broken, the highest of the cockpit bent and the glass within the home windows of the cockpit cracked.
“Airbus A320 plane was broken by hail on yesterday’s flight OS434 from Palma de Mallorca to Vienna. The plane was caught in a thunderstorm cell on method to Vienna, which in line with the cockpit crew was not seen on the climate radar,” Austrian Airways stated in an announcement to CNN Monday.
“In line with present data, the 2 entrance cockpit home windows of the plane, the nostril of the plane [the “radome”] and a few paneling have been broken by the hail.”
It’s now being checked for particular injury evaluation.
It follows an incident final month upon Singapore Airlines flight SQ321 when a passenger died and greater than 70 have been injured after the airplane hit extreme turbulence. Later the identical week, 12 people were injured on a Qatar Airways flight from Doha to Dublin.