Aviation agency to probe Delta plane’s windshield shattering mid-flight By Reuters

(Reuters) -The Federal Aviation Administration will investigate what went incorrect when the cockpit windshield of a Delta airplane shattered mid-air during a flight on Thursday to Washington, D.C., from Salt Lake Metropolis, Utah, a spokesperson stated on Saturday.

The Boeing (NYSE:) 757 produced a risk-free unexpected emergency landing in Denver at all over 11:35 a.m. on Thursday “immediately after the crew declared an unexpected emergency because of to a cracked windshield,” the Federal Aviation Administration spokesperson explained in a statement.

A Delta spokesperson said in a assertion that there experienced been a “servicing concern mid-flight” but did not elaborate.

“Out of an abundance of caution, the flight crew diverted into Denver and the airplane landed routinely. Our workforce worked rapidly to accommodate customers on a new aircraft, and we sincerely apologize for the hold off and inconvenience to their travel strategies,” the Delta spokesperson stated.

A individual who reported he was a passenger on the flight posted a photograph of the windshield to Twitter (NYSE:), which confirmed the glass shattered into very small fragments but however held in location.

There were being 198 men and women on the aircraft, in accordance to KUTV, which mentioned the passengers modified planes in Denver and resumed their journey to Ronald Reagan Countrywide Airport in Washington.

Passenger Rachel Wright instructed the Tv station that an individual arrived on the loudspeaker about 90 minutes into the flight to say the windshield experienced shattered and they would be landing in Denver in 10 minutes.

“I was guaranteed I experienced misheard them, but I hadn’t,” Wright reported.