On October 16, local time, a United Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 passenger plane was in the cockpit while flying at a height of 10,000 meters.The wind stop.The glass broke and the plane was emergency standby. Subsequently, several "unconfirmed" photos were circulated on the Internet, sparking a heated discussion in the American aviation community about whether the plane was hit by a "mysterious object."
United Airlines Announcement:
windsstoppedThe glass has cracked and has been safely prepared
According to reports, the flight involved was flight UA1093 from Denver to Los Angeles, with 134 passengers and 6 crew members on board.
At the time of the incident, the aircraft was flying at an altitude of 36,000 feet (about 11,000 meters). The crew was found about 200 miles southeast of Salt Lake City.windsImmediately after the cracks of the blocked glass appeared, the aircraft dropped to 26,000 feet (7924.8 meters) and started the emergency landing process. About 50 minutes later, the aircraft safely landed at Salt Lake City International Airport.
United Airlines issued a statement to the media after the incident, saying the flight "safe landed in Salt Lake City to handle its multi-layer operations."The wind stop.Officials said the repair team would conduct a comprehensive inspection of the aircraft, while passengers were arranged to shift to another aircraft, arriving in Los Angeles with a delay of about six hours.
After the official announcement was released, this incident aroused a lot of speculation in the American aviation community. Well-known aviation blogger JonNYC said on social media that he had "heard of an extraordinary cause for the rupture." He later shared several photos allegedly from the flight's cockpit, but he also emphasized that the photos "have not yet been confirmed."
According to aviation commentator Ben Schrapiger’s blog post, one photo showed a marked “burning trace” on the broken windshield, while another photo showed a pilot’s arm with “crushing wounds and blood traces.”
American aviation speculation.Space fragments or meteorites?
Senior Captain: or hit a meteor or satellite debris
Aviation commentator Kevin Derby noted that if the photos were true, signs such as “burning traces” and “pilot injuries” suggested it was most likely a “high-energy impact” and not just a common structural crack caused by temperature differences or mechanical stress.
U.S. aviation enthusiasts therefore began to speculate that the aircraft suffered an extremely rare “extraterrestrial” impact at millimeters of altitude, or was it a “space debris” or a “small meteorite”?
What makes this statement even more credible is that careful netizens found that in the leaked cockpit photo, the heading indicator of the plane was set to 164 degrees. According to public information, the heading of runway 16L where flight UA1093 landed in Salt Lake City is exactly 164 degrees. The details match.
Aviation expert senior captain Chen Buenang issued an analysis saying,The wind stop.Glass rupture can be caused by one of the following causes, including high-speed impacts of foreign objects (such as icebreakers, small debris, metal objects or tiny meteorites), thermal stress or structural fatigue that causes the outer layer of glass to break, or a failure in the heating system that causes a local concentration of stress in the glass.
From the image, Chen said that the aircraft “may be hit from the outside by remnants such as meteorites, rockets or satellites.”
He explained that the cruising ground speed (relative air speed) of the plane at an altitude of 10,000 meters is about 850 kilometers per hour. Without considering the speed of the wreckage itself, the impact force of even tiny wreckage is quite amazing. The strong impact force may have shattered the inner glass, causing the inner debris to injure the captain.
Images from the Internet show,The wind stop.The glass appeared as a “crushing cracks” and the situation was much more severe than the “glass cracks” on the surface of the cockpit panel and console, with a large number of tiny glass fragments and scratches in the right arm of the captain.
So far, United Airlines has not any injuries other than “little injuries to the pilot,” and the official has not commented on any “burning traces” or “space debris” claims.
Red Star News reporter Deng Shuyi