LATAM Airlines Plane's Nose Gets Destroyed After The Flight Gets Caught In Storm

A LATAM Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing after the plane's nose got destroyed in a storm in Asunción, Paraguay on Wednesday, Oct. 26.

Flight LA1325, a LATAM Airlines plane, was flying between Santiago de Chile and Asunción on Wednesday, Oct. 26 when it got caught in a storm. After getting caught in the storm, the tip of the plane's nose got destroyed and the plane also suffered cracks on the front windshield, BBC reported.

Following this, the plane was forced to make an emergency landing at its destination in Paraguay. Passengers and crew were unharmed.

The plane's journey got off to a bumpy start. Instead of landing at the flight's destination in the Paraguayan capital Asunción, the plane had to make an unscheduled stop at Brazil's Foz do Iguaçu airport due to poor weather conditions. After the weather conditions improved at the destination, the plane then resumed its flight to Asunción.

However, the bad weather returned, and the plane, an Airbus 320, had to make an emergency landing at Asunción late on Wednesday night, New York Post reported.

Several videos of the incident were shared by passengers on social media platforms. The videos that were posted on social media showed severe turbulence on the flight, and the passengers screaming as the plane traveled through the storm.

The photographs that were taken on the ground after the flight landed at the airport showed a gaping hole in the nose of the Airbus A320-200 flight and a shattered windshield.

According to the airline's spokesperson, the passengers and crew arrived in Paraguay "in good physical condition" and were immediately attended to by ground staff.

Following the incident, Paraguay's National Directorate of Civil Aeronautics, LATAM Airlines Paraguay along with the General Directorate of Civil Aeronautics of Chile are investigating the issue.

The General Directorate of Civil Aeronautics of Chile said that the plane made an emergency landing “due to extreme and unforeseen weather conditions.”

“This issue is under investigation, both on the DINAC side and on the side of the airline,” Félix Kanasawa, head of Paraguay’s National Directorate of Civil Aeronautics, said.