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On Monday, Sichuan Airlines flight 3U8633, travelling from Chongqing, China to Lhasa, Tibet, was forced to make an emergency landing after a part of the windshield blew mid-flight.
SEE ALSO: You need to watch this plane perform a wild vertical take-off"There was no warning sign," Captain Liu Chuanjian was quoted as saying by Reuters. "Suddenly, the windshield just cracked and made a loud bang. The next thing I know, my co-pilot had been sucked halfway out of the window.”
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“Everything in the cockpit was floating in the air.," the Captain continued. "Most of the equipment malfunctioned ... and I couldn’t hear the radio. The plane was shaking so hard I could not read the gauges."
Despite the nightmarish conditions, he was able to make an emergency landing in Chengdu, China. The co-pilot suffered minor injuries after being pulled back in, and no passengers were injured.
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Mashablehas reached out to Sichuan Airlines for comment.
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