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Broken window forces emergency landing

An airplane with 63 passengers on board made an emergency landing at Gothenburg’s Landvetter airport on Tuesday morning because of a cracked cockpit window.

Emergency services were on hand when the plane landed following faulty reports that the cabin had lost pressure.

“According to the reports we’ve received everything looks good,” said an operator with Gothenburg-area emergency services to the TT news agency.

The Brussels Airline flight was traveling between Stockholm’s Bromma airport and Brussels when the incident took place.

Through a partnership with Brussels Airlines, tickets on the flight were sold through Malmö Aviation, which had technicians on site to examine the plane.

The workers confirmed that there was a crack in the outer layer of the cockpit’s side window.

Such windows have several layers.

“Information that there was a loss of cabin pressure was incorrect. That didn’t happen,” said Malmö Aviation spokesperson Olof Löfgren.

Landvetter airport spokesperson Annika Hilmersson said it remained unclear what may have caused the crack.

“Naturally it’s an unpleasant incident. The passengers are being attended to and are doing well under the circumstances. Now they are being rebooked on other flights,” said Hilmersson.

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Airline Norwegian posts 15 billion kroner loss after nightmare 2020

Low cost airline Norwegian has registered a loss of 14.9 billion Norwegian kroner for 2020, a year in which the company saw a drastic reduction in passenger numbers and was on the brink of bankruptcy.

A file photo of a Norwegian Air Shuttle plane in Finland.
A file photo of a Norwegian Air Shuttle plane in Finland. Heikki Saukkomaa / Lehtikuva / AFP

Low cost airline Norwegian has registered a loss of 14.9 billion Norwegian kroner for 2020, a year in which the company saw a drastic reduction in passenger numbers and was on the brink of bankruptcy.

The company published its annual results on Friday, revealing the huge operating loss.

Norwegian’s 2019 result, a loss of around 1.7 billion kroner, had put the company in a difficult position even prior to the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The coronavirus outbreak and its consequent travel restrictions reduced the company’s passenger numbers to 6.9 million in 2020. That is 29 million fewer than in 2019.

Not all of the loss is due to fewer passengers. Around half of the company’s devaluation is attributed to a depreciation of the value of its aircraft fleet, news wire Ritzau reports.

“2020 was an exceptionally demanding year for air travel and for Norwegian,” CEO Jacob Schram said in a statement on the annual results.

“In light of that, the result for the fourth quarter (of 2020) is not surprising. Unfortunately, the majority of our employees are furloughed and many have lost their jobs – in part because of the closure of long distance services,” he added.

The company was already in debt prior to the pandemic and is now under bankruptcy protection in Ireland and is undergoing similar process in Norway.

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