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Incident: China Southern A388 enroute on May 26th 2019, hail strike


A China Southern Airlines Airbus A380-800, registration B-6140 performing flight CZ-3101 from Guangzhou to Beijing (China), was enroute at 11,300 meters (FL371) near Henan when the aircraft received a hail strike causing the windshields to become cracked. The crew performed a rapid descent to 5100 meters (FL167) and continued to Beijing for a safe landing about 90 minutes later.

The occurrence aircraft is still on the ground in Beijing about 16 hours after landing.

The already covered nose of the aircraft:

One of the cracked windshields:

Infrared Satellite Image Himawari 8 May 26th 2019 02:00Z (Graphics: AVH/JMA):

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