United A319's Cracked Windshield Forces Landing

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06-11-2007, 04:15 PM

vagabond

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United A319's Cracked Windshield Forces Landing

Didn't sound like fun at all!

http://www.king5.com/video/index.html?nvid=150666&shu=1

06-11-2007, 04:57 PM

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The FAA says it's extremely rare? I've had 3.

Two in the EMB-145 and one in the 737. I have photos.

It's no big deal. There are two layers. Only one cracks. You continue and land. Not an emergency.

06-11-2007, 05:13 PM

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I've had one in a 737-200. While not a "big deal" to crack one pane, it absolutely gets your attention.

06-11-2007, 06:59 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by HSLD

I've had one in a 737-200. While not a "big deal" to crack one pane, it absolutely gets your attention.

Concur. Big deal or not, staring at that crack all the way down is sobering.

It's one of those deals where you know based on training etc that it's probably not going to get worse but the imperical evidence makes it hard to convince yourself of this.

It has happened to me once. That's enough. Thank you....

06-12-2007, 10:31 PM

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I've had one so far. in metro. guess there more common than the feds think.

06-13-2007, 07:49 AM

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CRJ's do it all the time. Three layers, the middle one seems to crack. It makes a noise like a gunshot...DEFINATELY gets your attention.

I don't know of of many complete cockpit window failures, but you would certainly want to buckle up tight for the rest of the flight.

06-17-2007, 01:25 PM

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all I know is, if I saw this, I would probably want go go land asap and switch seats with someone else

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1208567/M/

06-17-2007, 09:16 PM

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Once for me ..............and its does wake you up.

06-18-2007, 06:12 PM

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Haha, the media eats up anything that has to do with commercial aviation:

"Pilot shouts swears from the flightdeck."
Yeah, and people in other professions would never dream of committing such a travesty.

"Windshield cracks on United 486."
Oooooh. Are you sure it's not an engine failure, like what's been plaguing Cape Air recently?

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