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[-] thesushicat@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

My dumb ass interpreted this as they found a window pane from a house flying through the air at 13,000 feet

[-] kdg6@real.lemmy.fan 10 points 1 year ago

LOL I like yours better

[-] autotldr 1 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


A U.S.-bound plane took off from London last month with four damaged window panes, including two that were completely missing, according to U.K. air accident investigators.

No one was injured by the window malfunctions, which appear to have been caused by high-power lights used in a film shoot, the U.K.'s Air Accident Investigation Branch reported in a special bulletin published Nov. 4.

The lights, which were intended to give the illusion of a sunrise, were placed about 20 to 30 feet from the aircraft, shining on first the right, then the left side of the craft for over nine hours in total.

"A different level of damage by the same means might have resulted in more serious consequences, especially if window integrity was lost at higher differential pressure," the AAIB wrote.

In 2018, Southwest passenger Jennifer Riordan was fatally injured after being partially sucked out of a plane window that was smashed by shrapnel from an exploded engine.

Several cracked airplane windows have made headlines in the years since, but aviation experts maintain that the risk of being injured or killed in such a scenario is still rare.


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this post was submitted on 11 Nov 2023
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