Tarom incident in Madrid: Two Airbus planes landed at Barajas due to cracked windshield

Two TAROM A310 planes with the same technical problem – cracked windshield.
A Romanian Air Transport (TAROM) Airbus A310-300 plane made Thursday (18 Jun 2009) a safety landing at Barajas airport in Madrid after one of the crew member noticed a crack in one of the windshields.
The TAROM flight RO7443 (registration YR-LCA) was carrying 200 passengers and 10 crew on board and was en route from Bucharest Otopeni to Tenerife Sur Reina (Spain). The coincidence comes up when a second plane of the Romanian Air Company – another Airbus A310 - was sent from Bucharest to carry the passengers of Flight RO7443 from Madrid to Tenerife; amazingly after landing in Madrid also this one proved to have a cracked windshield. Romanian officials declared that the later plane showed no problem before taking off from Bucharest and believe that the break occurred during the flight to Spain’s capital. In the end the first plane was fixed and 24 hours later (Friday 19/06/2009) the passengers continued the trip to Tenerife where they arrived with no further troubles.