Saturday, August 8, 2015

Miracle blind landing of Delta flight badly damaged in hail storm

Posted by Anup Baral August 08, 2015 :
Hero Delta pilots make a BLIND emergency landing after baseball-sized hail storm cracked their windshield and damaged nose Flight 1889 from Boston, Massachusetts, to Salt Lake City, Utah, made emergency landing in Denver at 9pm.

The hail in eastern Colorado damaged nose of the Airbus 320 and the aircraft's GPS navigation system Pilots made landing with limited visibility because of major cracks in the windshield One passenger was taken to hospital with minor injuries while the others were flown to Utah on replacement plane-video Said they did not realize how bad the damage was until they landed and saw the front of plane-video Some children so scared by the incident that their families rented cars and drove eight hours from Colorado to Utah-video Delta flight has to make blind emergency landing after hail storm gives plane cracked windshield and damaged nose video Flight 1889 from Boston, Massachusetts, to Salt Lake City, Utah, made emergency landing in Denver at 9pm Baseball-sized hail in eastern Colorado damaged nose of the Boeing 747 and the aircraft's GPS navigation system video Pilots made landing with limited visibility because of major cracks in the windshield from the hail video One person went to the hospital with minor injuries and other waited for replacement plane that got them home at 2am.

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