Pilot gets ‘sucked halfway out’ of cockpit when windshield shatters

Yep: It sounds like something out of a disaster movie, but this actually happened.

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.

“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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