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Did Space Debris Hit A United Flight Over The Rockies Thursday? Here’s What We Know So Far - View from the Wing
A United flight from Denver to Los Angeles diverted to Salt Lake City on Thursday. The airline reported that flight 1093 made the decision to address a crack in one layer of its windshield. But, based on a photo shared by aviation watchdog JonNYC, was the plane actually hit by space debris?
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"So what’s the risk of space debris to aviation? An FAA report from 2023 estimated an annual 0.1% chance that falling space debris would cause a single global aviation casualty. That meant individual passenger risk was less than a trillion‑to‑one though projected to increase."
"I haven’t found a single confirmed airliner debris strike on record. I’ve found old discussions noting the absence of any documented cases. It seems like the most likely scenario is windshield heat system arcing causing scorch marks. That doesn’t rule out other possibiltiies, of course."
