A crack in the cockpit windshield of a Biman Bangladesh Airlines Dreamliner has forced the pilot to bring the Boeing 787-9 plane back to Dhaka two hours after take-off. Air Commodore Moazzem Hossain, director of engineering and material management at Biman, said the windshield was not supposed to crack four years after the plane was added to Biman’s fleet. Windshield cracks can compromise an aircraft’s pressurisation system leading to a disaster. A Boeing 737 of Biman was grounded in Malaysia after a crack in the cockpit window glass in February 2022. The same problem in a Dreamliner forced the pilot to return a Doha-bound flight to Dhaka in August 2022.

Source: bd News24 January 21, 2024 15:03 UTC