WarMonitor on Nostr: The cracked windshield on the U.S. Secretary of State’s Boeing C-32, which will ...

The cracked windshield on the U.S. Secretary of State’s Boeing C-32, which will land soon at Joint base Andrews near Washington D.C., brings to mind the incident on British Airways Flight 5390 in 1990. During that flight the captain, Timothy Lancaster, was partially sucked out of the cockpit of the plane when the windscreen blew off due to faulty fastenings. A flight attendant, Nigel Ogden, held Lancaster in place hanging out of the window until the copilot, Alastair Aitchison, safely made an emergency landing. Lancaster survived with a dislocated shoulder and frostbite. Incidents like this and many others are why the integrity of an aircraft’s windshields are so important.