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Crew aboard a U.S.-bound plane discovered a missing window pane at 13,000 feet


A photo included in the U.K.’s Air Accidents Investigations Branch special bulletin shows the location of one damaged and two missing window panes on an Airbus A321.

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A U.S.-bound plane took off from London last month with four damaged window panes, including two that were completely missing, according to U.K. air accident investigators.

No one was injured by the window malfunctions, which appear to have been caused by high-power lights used in a film shoot, the U.K.’s Air Accident Investigation Branch reported in a special bulletin published Nov. 4.

The aircraft departed from London’s Stansted Airport on the morning of Oct. 4 carrying 11 crew members and nine passengers, all of whom are employees of the “tour company or the aircraft’s operating company,” the report states, without elaborating on the tour company.