10-06-2024 16:39 via foxbusiness.com

Austrian Airlines plane severely damaged after flying through hailstorm

Dramatic images have emerged showing the front of an Austrian Airlines plane severely damaged after it flew through a hailstorm, forcing its pilots to make a "mayday distress call." A spokesperson for the airline told FOX Business that the Airbus A320 aircraft was flying from Palma de Mallorca in Spain’s Balearic Islands to Austria on Sunday when it "encountered a thunderstorm cell during approach to Vienna, which according to the cockpit crew, was not visible on the weather radar."&n
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