Plane Forced To Turn Around After Hail Cracks Windshield

Tuesday, 13 October 2020Newsdesk

A Dulles-bound United Airlines flight had made an emergency landing Monday after its windshield was cracked by hail, according to a passenger and the airline. Flight UA349 left Chicago just before 2 p.m. and made a loop over Lake Michigan before abruptly returning to O'Hare International Airport, according to data from tracking site Flight Radar 24.

New Delhi, 13 October 2020

As per news report of NDTV, Alex Lang, a passenger on the flight, tweeted a photo of the front windshield of the airliner, an Airbus A320, showing it cracked on its left side. "We flew through a hailstorm for some reason and it cracked the entire windshield," he tweeted.

Source -NDTV