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Jane Zhang

The windscreens on an Airbus A380 were shattered by hailstones as it landed at Beijing on Sunday, China Southern Airlines said.
No one was injured during the incident, which was caused by a thunderstorm over the Chinese capital, the airline said on its Weibo account on Sunday.
Flight CZ3101 left Guangzhou in Guangdong province at 8.35am. As it came into land at about 11.20am, the crew radioed the control centre about hail damage to the windscreens along the flight deck.
“We can still see the outside,” a crew member said on an audio track released by Chinese news portal Thepaper.cn. “But the windscreens have cracked.”

The aircraft touched down safely at Beijing Capital International Airport at 11:48am. All passengers and crew were unharmed.
A passenger was quoted as saying that there was more turbulence than usual on landing, but that the flight attendants were very calm and the passengers only realised what had happened as they got off the plane.
A photograph published by the Shanghai-based The Paper indicated that the nose of the plane was also damaged.
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The windscreens on an A380 are three layers thick and only the outer layer was affected on Flight CZ3101, China Southern told the Beijing Evening News.
Last May, a Sichuan Airlines plane en route from Chongqing to Tibet made an emergency landing at Chengdu after its windscreen was shattered. A co-pilot was injured by explosive decompression and almost sucked out of the cockpit, Chengdu Economic Daily reported.
A cabin crew member suffered a torso injury, the first officer was scratched and 29 of the plane’s 119 passengers were sent to a hospital for examination.


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The nose of the A380 also appeared to be damaged. Photo: Weibo

Windscreens of an A380 plane cracked due to hail when landing in Beijing on Sunday morning. No one was injured during the incident, according to China Southern Airlines. Its flight CZ3101 left Guangzhou in south China’s Guangdong province at 8.35am at Sunday morning. While landing in the capital at about 11.20am, the plane was hit by hail and the windscreens cracked. The crew immediately reported the situation to the control centre on the ground. Photo: Weibo

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Guangzhou flight loses visibility over Beijing after thunderstorm damages plane
Passengers say they were not aware of hail strike until they saw A380 on the ground


Guangzhou flight loses visibility over Beijing after thunderstorm damages plane, but the passengers say they were not aware of hail strike until they saw nose of the A380 after landing.


Safe landing for Chinese passenger jet despite hail-shattered windscreens

.css-1mniedq{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;}Guangzhou flight loses visibility over Beijing after thunderstorm damages plane Passengers say they were not aware of hail strike until they saw A380 on the ground

Guangzhou flight loses visibility over Beijing after thunderstorm damages plane

Passengers say they were not aware of hail strike until they saw A380 on the ground