More superb reporting.

[fujii]

A Thai Airways plane en route from Sydney to Bangkok has made an emergency landing in Bali after a crack was discovered in the cockpit window.

The Boeing 747, carrying 273 passengers and 21 crew, was six hours into the journey on Tuesday when the captain found the defect and decided to land on Bali, the airline said in a statement.

A spokesman for the island's airport described the landing at 5:00pm as a "minor disruption".

There were no reports of injuries and the passengers stayed in a Bali hotel overnight. They were set to fly on to Bangkok later on Wednesday in another plane.

Thai Airways said it was sending a team to Bali to investigate the incident and supervise the changing of the damaged window.

In September last year, more than a dozen passengers were slightly injured when a Thai Airways jet skidded off the runway in Bangkok after the landing gear malfunctioned.

Just over a week before that incident, dozens of passengers and crew were injured when a Thai Airways A380 superjumbo hit severe turbulence during a flight from Bangkok to Hong Kong.

AFP

[Capn Bloggs]

And the problem with that report would be...??

[DirectAnywhere]

I'm guessing the last two paragraphs. Sensationalist and unnecessary. Remove those and the rest of it actually reads quite well. I'm guessing those last few lines were added by a subby for a bit more drama to an otherwise mundane and quite sensible report.

[Stanwell]

Oh dear, oh dear.
Some plodder in the newsroom scratching to make up the word-count, I suspect.
A brilliant bit of investigative reporting to round it off.

He/she may as well have concluded with - "..and everything!".

[500N]

That seems to be standard practice nowadays for all incident media reports.

I have noticed it more and more where they list the last 2 incidents by the same airline.

[wotajoke]

Wallabies on a Qantas plane | News.com.au (http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/wallabies-on-a-qantas-plane/story-e6frfq80-1227021709162)

Wonder how that 747 is working out.

Is it really that hard for journalists to have even a modicum of integrity? A pathetic existence filling pages full of fictional, sensationalist garbage based loosely on the truth.

:yuk:

[Ken Borough]

There's no doubt about the younger generation trying to reinvent the world! Now we have two-engined B747s. That should make AJ's fuel bill a lot less than expected. :ugh:

[reynoldsno1]

I like the caption for the last photo ... "an older rock wallaby". Just in case there was some doubt ....