“Why is it so cold and noisy? People were ‘surprised’ when they found out the reason.

A British passenger plane was forced to return to the airport just 36 minutes after takeoff due to four damaged windows.

According to local foreign media on the 9th (local time), a plane headed from London, UK to Florida, USA last month had an incident where four cabin windows were damaged, two of which fell off during the landing process.

The aircraft, a British Airbus A321, was carrying nine passengers and eleven crew members. The staff discovered that the window joints were fluttering after passengers complained that it was “too cold and noisy,” unaware of the window damage.

The staff immediately reported the situation to the captain and crew, and after an engineer checked the windows, it was determined that the plane could no longer fly. The plane, which had been flying at a minimum altitude of 14,000 feet (about 2.5 miles), returned to London Stansted Airport just 36 minutes after takeoff. There were no casualties.

The UK’s Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AIB) suggested that “there had been a filming event on board the plane that lasted for about 4-5 hours the previous day,” and “the high-output lighting used at that time and the resulting heat seem to have deformed the windows.”

When an aircraft window is damaged, the cabin pressure drops rapidly, causing a sharp drop in temperature and oxygen levels. This can lead to hypoxia if oxygen masks are not used in time. The pressure difference can also cause people to be sucked out.

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