Jat B737-300 Diverted To Athens
 

A Jat Boeing B737-300(6 Crew + 33 Pax) Has Diverted To Athens While Bound For Heraklion From Belgrade Due To A Cracked Cockpit Windshield.
The Aircraft Landed Safely On 21r At 23:33.

Interesting. We too were diverted to Athens Sept 08 after a cracked windscreen on BA Thessaloniki - Gatwick flight. On that occassion plane dropped immediately to 10,000ft and we flew round for 1.5 hours to burn fuel before landing at Athens. Flying out to Skiathos on Monarch in May got same problem - cracked iwndcreen. this time we were 1.5 hours into flight & flight turned round and came back to Gatwick.

BA flight was Boeing & Monarch flight was Airbus.

Have I been unfortunate or are windscreen cracks a frequent problem?

I have flown about 3-4 times a year for the last 20 years and these two incidences are the only two times it has happened.

Intersting load mid-june for a flight to Crete.....Not much of a profit there is there.......