Boeing 737 windshield shatters midair — pilot injured as glass tears skin; here’s what happened next
United Airlines Flight 1093 with 140 people aboard safely diverted after a windshield cracked mid-flight near Utah; the National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the cause.
- A United Airlines flight from Denver to Los Angeles was diverted to Salt Lake City after the windshield cracked mid-air, injuring a pilot.
- Passengers were eventually put on a new plane and arrived in Los Angeles about six hours late.
- The National Transportation Safety Board has opened an investigation into the incident and sent the damaged windshield to a lab for testing.
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Airliner Windscreen Cracked During Flight - By what? - Armed Forces Press
What hits an airliner in the windscreen at 36,000 feet? “A United Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing after the plane’s windscreen shattered. Flight 1093 had taken off from Denver, Colorado, and was headed to Los Angeles, California, when a layer of the cockpit’s main window cracked on Thursday. The plane was about 200 miles southeast of Salt Lake City, Utah, at roughly 36,000 feet in the air, when the crew noticed something…


Windshield on United Airlines flight cracks mid-air, NTSB investigating
A United Airlines flight from Colorado to California was diverted to Utah after the plane’s windshield cracked mid-flight, a post from the National Transportation Safety Board said. The incident comes as the Chicago-based airline said a recent flight from Chicago to Houston blew two tires upon landing. United Airlines Flight 1093 was en route from Denver to Los Angeles on Thursday, Oct. 16, when the plane’s “windscreen” cracked while in flight n…
United Airlines passenger describes panic on flight after mystery object smashes windshield, injures pilot
United Flight 1093 from Denver to Los Angeles made an emergency landing in Salt Lake City on Thursday after something smashed into the windshield with such force that it shattered a layer of glass and injured one of the pilots.
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