{"id":427209,"date":"2026-05-13T21:27:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T11:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/southwest-737-windshield-shatters-no-impact\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T21:27:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T11:27:15","slug":"it-just-exploded-southwest-737-700-windshield-shatters-despite-no-apparent-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=427209","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It Just Exploded&#8221;: Southwest 737-700 Windshield Shatters Despite No Apparent Impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"44355\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/southwest-airlines\/\"  >Southwest Airlines<\/a><\/span> flight from Albuquerque to Baltimore was forced to make an emergency landing in Tulsa on Monday after the cockpit <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58599\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/windshield\/\"  >windshield<\/a><\/span> suddenly shattered while at cruising altitude. The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"3507971\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Boeing 737-700<\/span><\/span> was approximately one hour into the three-hour flight when cracks began to form in the glass before it fractured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The windshield suddenly fractured while the plane was at 37,000 feet.<\/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":[396,476,3475,645,423,925],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-boeing-737-700","category-southwest-airlines","category-united-states","category-windshield"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427209","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=427209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427210,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427209\/revisions\/427210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=427209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=427209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=427209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}