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Chinese Jet Lands Safely After Co-Pilot Partially Sucked Out Of Windshield

The co-pilot of the Sichuan Airlines flight was pulled back into the cockpit with only minor injuries. The pilot brought the Airbus down in an emergency landing, and no passengers were harmed.
Employees check a Sichuan Airlines Airbus A-319 on Monday after an emergency landing in Chengdu in China's northwestern Sichuan province. A cockpit window that broke midflight has been covered up; the flight's co-pilot was partially sucked out of the window.

A Sichuan Airlines flight made an emergency landing on Monday after the cockpit windshield abruptly broke, pulling the co-pilot partially out of the Airbus A-319.

The co-pilot suffered minor

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