{"id":321667,"date":"2025-11-23T18:13:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T08:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/ntsb-report-united-boeing-737-collided-weather-balloon\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T18:13:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T08:13:04","slug":"ntsb-report-confirms-united-boeing-737-collided-with-weather-balloon-at-36000-feet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=321667","title":{"rendered":"NTSB Report Confirms United Boeing 737 Collided With Weather Balloon At 36,000 Feet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released its preliminary report on the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"128657\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>United Airlines<\/span><\/span> Boeing 737 high-altitude <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"10455\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/collision\/\"  >collision<\/a><\/span> incident over Utah last month, concluding that the aircraft most likely collided with a commercial weather <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"277183\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/balloon\/\"  >balloon<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The impact showered both pilots with glass after smashing the cockpit 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":[396,476,5767,422,875,421,536,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-balloon","category-boeing-737","category-collision","category-ntsb","category-united-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321667","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=321667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321670,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321667\/revisions\/321670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=321667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=321667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}