Emergency alternate! A Shanghai Chengdu airliner dropped more than 4300 meters in 7 minutes! What happened?

On February 19, when flight ho1231 from Shanghai to Chengdu flew to the area near Wuhan, the windshield outside the left rear side of the captain’s seat cracked . After handling according to the procedures, the crew made a safe alternate landing at Wuhan Tianhe Airport at 21:23 on the same day.

After alternate landing, the crew and passengers have been placed in nearby hotels. Today (the 20th), passengers successively changed their visas to fly to the original destination .

According to upstream news reports, crew made an emergency descent from a cruising altitude of more than 10000 meters to avoid an emergency after a crack occurred in the windshield outside the left rear side of the captain’s seat of flight Juneyao Airlines Co.Ltd(603885) ho1231. The maximum descent rate reached 4381 meters in 7 minutes. The passenger plane then made a safe alternate landing at Wuhan airport. The scene pictures showed that there were cobweb like cracks on the windshield outside the left rear side of the cockpit.

This time, the flight Juneyao Airlines Co.Ltd(603885) ho1231 is an Airbus A320-200 aircraft, with an age of 12.6 years . The flight took off from Shanghai Hongqiao Airport at 19:34 on the same day and was originally scheduled to land at Chengdu Tianfu International Airport at 22:55.

The flight trajectory of flight ho1231 also confirmed that the flight suddenly changed its flight plan during the cruise process, circled over Wuhan after leaving the cruise route, did not carry out “five side flight” according to the general landing trajectory, and directly landed at Wuhan Tianhe Airport. Flight ho1231 was then cancelled directly. At present, there is no public follow-up flight plan .

On February 20, Juneyao Airlines Co.Ltd(603885) issued a statement on flight ho1231 on February 19 .

Juneyao Airlines Co.Ltd(603885) carried more than 13 million passengers last year

According to the Juneyao Airlines Co.Ltd(603885) official website, the company is a holding subsidiary of Shanghai Junyao (Group) Co., Ltd. and officially opened in September 2006.

It is reported that in 2021 Juneyao Airlines Co.Ltd(603885) , more than 90000 flights were safely carried out, and the number of passengers carried exceeded 13 million. The number of passengers transported by increased by nearly 20% year-on-year . It was awarded the “two-star Award for flight safety” by the Civil Aviation Administration and successfully passed the 2021 International Aviation Association annual operation safety audit (IOSA).

In addition, according to the report, Juneyao Airlines Co.Ltd(603885) recently disclosed in an institutional survey that during the Spring Festival this year, the passenger flow increased by about 20% compared with 2021, decreased by about 7.8% compared with 2020 and decreased by about 33% compared with 2019; during the Spring Festival this year, the ticket price increased by about 30% compared with 2021, decreased by about 25% compared with 2020 and decreased by about 22% compared with 2019. Generally, it is still within the expected range.

At present, Juneyao Airlines Co.Ltd(603885) shares are reported at 16.91 yuan, with a total market value of 33.25 billion yuan.

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