A child sitting near the window was reportedly pulled by the suction, and his shirt was torn off.
On Friday, the Alaska Airlines plane's outer section, including a window, fell off mid-air.
It's very rare that a company fulfill its customer's wish. And that too at about 35,000 feet in the air.
The Pierce County Sheriff's Department, the primary law enforcement agency for Pierce County in Washington, said it was not a terrorist incident and that no other person was involved in it.
But the regulator has dropped the proposal of asking flyers to maintain 30 seconds of silence.
From using bio-fuels to revamping in-flight food and drinks services, eschewing mass-produced chicken/eggs in favour of local, farm-raised options to offering eco-friendly toys for children, airlines try out inventive measures to encourage carbon-neutral practices.
'IndiGo 2018 is a harsh, ultra-lean, mean, zero asset, fighting machine with aspirations of taking on the global long-haul low-cost market.'
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