A United Airlines flight from Denver to Los Angeles was forced to make an emergency landing on Thursday after its cockpit windshield cracked at cruising altitude, an extremely rare occurrence that has drawn attention across the aviation community.

This article originally published at Unidentified object hits windshield of Calif.-bound flight, forcing 6-hour delay.

In a mid-air horror for passengers, a United Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 flight travelling from Denver to Los Angeles made an emergency landing after a layer of its windshield shattered, injuring one of the pilots.

A PILOT was doused in blood after a mystery object smashed into his Boeing 737’s windshield at 36,000 feet – leaving the cockpit littered with glass. The United Airlines captain was

A United Airlines pilot sustained injuries after a mystery object struck a Boeing 737's windshield at high altitude. The aircraft made an emergency la