{"id":305185,"date":"2025-10-21T22:18:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T12:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/united-airlines-boeing-737-cracked-windshield-weather-balloon-blame\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T22:18:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T12:18:18","slug":"weather-balloon-company-believes-its-product-struck-united-airlines-jet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=305185","title":{"rendered":"Weather Balloon Company Believes Its Product Struck United Airlines Jet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, a United Airlines<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"60363\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/boeing\/\"  >Boeing<\/a><\/span> 737 MAX 8 twinjet flying from Denver International Airport (DEN) in Colorado to Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) in California had to make a dramatic diversion. After a Foreign Object Debris (FOD) strike caused the aircraft&#8217;s windshield to crack, injuring one of the pilots in the process, the plane ended up diverting to Salt Lake City International Airport (SLC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WindBorne Systems says one of its weather balloons likely caused the FOD strike that cracked a United Airlines 737 MAX 8&#8217;s windshield.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,5767,422,536,423,607],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-balloon","category-boeing-737","category-united-airlines","category-united-states","category-weather"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=305185"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305187,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305185\/revisions\/305187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=305185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=305185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=305185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}