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<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>“The windshield cracked suddenly and gave a huge bang. I looked aside and found half of the co-pilot’s body was already outside the window,” &#8211; Capt. Liu Chuanjian </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Chinese airliner’s co-pilot was sucked halfway out of a shattered cockpit window at 32,000 feet, on Monday</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Captain Liu managed to pull his colleague back inside, then make an emergency landing</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>The Sichuan Airlines Airbus A319 was en route from Chongqing, southwest China to Lhasa, Tibet when the terrifying mishap occurred while the 119 passengers were eating breakfast</strong></span></h6>
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<h6 class="wp-caption-text featured"><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-293019" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Workers-inspect-Airbus-after-Flight-3U8633-of-Chinas-Sichuan-Airlines-made-an-emergency-landing-on-Monday.jpg" alt="Workers inspect Airbus after Flight 3U8633, of China's Sichuan Airlines, made an emergency landing on Monday.jpg" width="1236" height="820" />Safety engineers inspect the Airbus after Flight 3U8633, of China&#8217;s Sichuan Airlines, made an emergency landing on Monday.</strong></h6>
<div class="wp-caption-text featured">A Chinese airliner’s co-pilot was sucked halfway out of a shattered cockpit window at 32,000 feet, and the captain was hailed as a hero for pulling his colleague back inside — and then making an emergency landing, according to reports.</div>
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<p>“The windshield cracked suddenly and gave a huge bang. I looked aside and found half of the co-pilot’s body was already outside the window,” Sichuan Airlines Capt. Liu Chuanjian said, <a href="http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2146003/chinese-airliner-makes-emergency-landing-after-cockpit-window">the South China Morning Post reported</a>.<br />
“Fortunately, his seat belt was fastened,” Liu added about the first officer, who was dragged back into the windswept cockpit, where the pressure and temperature plummeted.<br />
“Everything in the cockpit was floating in the air,” the captain said, <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-44121377?ns_campaign=bbcnews&;ns_mchannel=social&;ocid=socialflow_twitter&;ns_source=twitter">according to the BBC</a>. “I couldn’t hear the radio. The plane was shaking so hard I could not read the gauges.”</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-293022" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Shot-from-inside-the-cockpit-of-the-damaged-Sichuan-Airlines-Airbus-.png" alt="Shot from inside the cockpit of the damaged Sichuan Airlines Airbus .png" width="879" height="523" />Inside shot of the damaged cockpit</strong><br />
The Airbus A319 was en route from Chongqing in southwest China to Lhasa in Tibet on Monday when the terrifying mishap occurred while the 119 passengers were eating breakfast.<br />
“We didn’t know what was going on and we panicked,” a passenger told the state-run China News Service. “The oxygen masks dropped … We experienced a few seconds of free-fall before it stabilized again.”<br />
The plane dropped to 24,000 feet as Liu struggled to regain control.<br />
“The sudden loss of pressure and low temperature made me very uncomfortable and it was very difficult to make a single move when the aircraft was flying at 900 kilometers (560 miles) an hour and at such a high altitude,” Liu said, according to the Morning Post.</p>
<h6><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-293020" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/The-broken-window-of-on-Chinas-Sichuan-Airlines-Flight-3U8633.jpg" alt="The broken window of on China's Sichuan Airlines, Flight 3U8633.jpg" width="612" height="610" /><br />
The broken window on Sichuan Airlines Flight 3U8633</strong></h6>
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<p>Liu said he had to fly the plane manually because the automatic systems malfunctioned.<br />
“I have flown this route a hundred times and know everything very well,” said Liu, who landed the plane safely in Chengdu.<br />
The only injuries reported were to the co-pilot, who suffered a sprained wrist and facial cuts, and another crew member, who was slightly hurt as the plane dropped, Chinese aviation officials said.<br />
The incident comes two months after a woman died after being partially sucked out of a Southwest Airlines jet that suffered a midair engine failure during a flight from New York City to Dallas.</p>
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Co-pilot survives being sucked halfway out of cockpit window – ‘Hero’ Captain of China’s Sichuan Airlines Airbus pulled in his co-pilot, made emergency landing, no passenger harmed
