British Airways flight suffers freak accident, windscreen smashes at 35,000 feet | World News - Hindustan Times
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JLU0PfRlSV4PboQvIPSUE6fZfiDj-6ro7HLREZWhZvk/edit Subscribe Now! Get features like British Airways flight suffers freak accident, windscreen smashes at 35,000 feet Around 200 passengers onboard a British Airways aircraft to London survived a mid-air accident at 35,000 feet after a block of ice from a jet flying about 1,000 feet above it smashed onto the windscreen of the plane and left it cracked, media reports stated. Flight BA2236 was in the skies with holiday travellers from London's Gatwick international airport to San Jose in Costa Rica on Christmas Day when the freak incident happened. The block of ice shattered the two-inch-thick windscreen, which is nearly bulletproof to withstand extreme force. However, the aircraft landed safely at San Jose. The incident has been described as ‘one-in-a-million’ that landed with all onboard safe but left the passengers stranded over Christmas as they could not make it back to London on the same flight