Jumbo jet makes emergency landing at bird refuge

A Delta Air Lines 747 with nearly 380 passengers and crew made an emergency stop at the Midway Atoll wildlife refuge part of the way between Hawaii and Japan after the plane developed a crack in the cockpit windshield.

The airplane was flying from Honolulu to Osaka when pilots noticed the crack and landed at the former military base about 1,300 miles northwest of Oahu at about 5.40pm on Thursday.