When the Sky Falls, Utah Catches You
If space debris ever smacks your plane mid-flight, don’t panic — just aim for Utah. That’s what a United Airlines flight did after a mysterious object struck its fuselage somewhere between Denver and LA.
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The windshield cracked, the pilots rerouted, and where did they land safely? Salt Lake City. Of course they did.
This Scenario is Incredible
We’ve got wide skies, calm runways, and a population trained to handle weirdness. And this story is full of weirdness, at impact the flight was at 36,000 feet, well above where fowl or even hail can make impact. We are assuming space debris, but the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is still investigating what it might have been.
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