By Simon Hradecky, created Thursday, Nov 19th 2020 19:29Z, last updated Thursday, Nov 19th 2020 19:29Z

A LATAM Brazil Airbus A321-200, registration PT-MXB performing flight JJ-3304 from Sao Paulo Guarulhos,SP to Belem,PA (Brazil) with 178 passengers and 7 crew, was climbing out of Sao Paulo deviating around weather, when the crew stopped the climb at FL200 after both windshields cracked. The crew decided to return to Guarulhos for an overweight but safe landing on runway 27L about 45 minutes after departure.

A replacement A321-200 registration PT-MXF reached Belem with a delay of 3 hours.

The occurrence aircraft is still on the ground in Sao Paulo about 50 hours after landing back.

Brazil's CENIPA rated the occurrence an incident and did not open an invesitgation.