A Japanese domestic flight returns to airport with crack on a cockpit window, no injuries reported
Tokyo, Jan 14: An All Nippon Airways domestic flight turned back to Japan's northern airport of Sapporo after a crack was found on the cockpit window, according to the airline and media reports.
ANA Flight 1182 was en route to Toyama airport in central Japan on Saturday but had to return to the New Chitose airport for repairs, the airline said. There were no reports of injuries among the 65 people on board.
The crack was found on one of the cockpit windows and the cause is under investigation, according to local media reports.
The plane involved is a Boeing 737-800 a different model from the Boeing 737 Max 9 jet that is under investigation by the US Federal Aviation Administration.
A plug covering a spot left for an emergency door tore off an Alaska Airlines plane as it flew 16,000 feet (4,800 meters) above Oregon on January 5, leaving a hole in the plane.
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Strong earthquake kills at least 9 people in western China
Beijing (AP): A strong earthquake shook a mountainous region in western China near Nepal on Tuesday morning, killing at least nine people, state media said.
State broadcaster CCTV cited the Ministry of Emergency Management for the death toll but did not give details on the casualties.
The magnitude 7.1 quake struck in a mountainous area in the Tibet region, near the border with Nepal, at a depth of about 10 kilometers (6 miles), the US Geological Survey said.
China's earthquake monitoring agency recorded the magnitude as 6.8. The average altitude in the area around the epicenter is about 4,200 meters (13,800 feet), CCTV said.
The CCTV online report said there were a handful of communities within 5 kilometers of the epicentre, which was 380 kilometers (240 miles) from Lhasa, the capital of Tibet.
