According to media reports, approximately 200 passengers on a British Airways plane bound for London survived a 35,000-foot aerial accident due to a block of ice flying about 1,000 feet above it hitting the plane On the windshield and cracked it.
On Christmas Day, flight BA2236 flew in the air with holiday travelers from London Gatwick International Airport to San Jose, Costa Rica, when this weird incident happened.
The ice cube smashed the two-inch-thick windshield. The windshield is almost bulletproof and can withstand great strength. However, the plane landed safely in San Jose.
The incident was described as “one in a million”. All passengers on the plane landed safely, but they were trapped during Christmas because the passengers were unable to return to London on the same flight.
Two such passengers, Jo Mitchell and Geir Olafsson, are on their honeymoon in Costa Rica. They set off from a resort on the Pacific coast and returned to Edinburgh via Gatwick Airport to reunite with their families for Christmas.
“My husband is Icelandic and his family in Edinburgh celebrated Christmas on December 24. Mitchell told the British newspaper The Independent that we were desperately looking for connecting flights so that we could get there in time , So as not to miss his family’s Christmas. According to them, the BA application showed that the status of the flight was ambiguous and was postponed to the next day.
“However, the flight time only showed a four-hour delay. We did not receive any information via email or message, so we hope this is just a glitch. We dropped the car and proceeded to the airport, desperately hoping it was not true. “Mitchell said.
The flight was rescheduled 50 hours after the original scheduled departure time.
“At this point, we were destroyed-realizing that we would miss Christmas with our family,” Mitchell pointed out.
British Airways later apologized to passengers who had to cancel the Christmas plan due to the incident.
“Unless we think it is completely safe to do so, we will never fly the plane, and in this case, our engineers cannot get the plane to take off.
Complete News Source : Hindustan Times
