Delta Air Lines plane forced to land after windshield shatters mid-air
AP in Salt Lake City
Fri 1 Apr 2022 09.14 EDT
The pilots on a Delta Air Lines flight from Salt Lake City to Washington DC decided to bring their jet down in Denver after the cockpit windshield shattered above 30,000 feet. The crew repeatedly told passengers to remain calm until they landed.
“They came on the loudspeaker saying that the windshield had shattered, and we were diverting to Denver in about 10 minutes,” Rachel Wright, one of the 198 passengers on the plane, told KUTV.
A photo of the windshield taken by a passenger shows the glass, though lined with cracks, didn’t fall from its frame. Commercial airline pilots said jetliner windshields can be two inches thick, with several layered panes of glass, the station reported.
The crew announced the diversion about 90 minutes into the flight, after the plane reached cruising altitude, which is above 30,000 feet, passengers said.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/01/delta-plane-windshield-shatters-mid-air
If this windshield had been replaced recently, it could have caused this to happen. If the windshield had been replaced and someone used the wrong screws, then this could have caused this happened because there is a set pattern for the torque down for those screws and they were numbered to the position they had to be re-installed or we got new screws in the kit, because each time a windshield is replaced the torque can cause the screw to get longer and shank on screw ( under the head) could bottom out in the nut plate and you had to have inspection.
Or the simple fact the fatigue on the windshield and they are layered panes that have a frozen bird shot at them to make sure that they pass the FAA guidelines for safety and PPG is a really good provider
my rant....
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I never unbuckled that 4 point harness until we landed ....you just never knew......
Thank you for the video
