A United Airlines plane appears to have collided with a weather balloon while cruising over Utah at 36,000 feet last week, fracturing layers of its windshield and forcing an emergency landing. A ...

A United Airlines plane appears to have collided with a weather balloon while cruising over Utah at 36,000 feet last week, fracturing layers of its windshield and forcing an emergency landing. A ...

Images appeared to show glass in the cockpit and the captain's bloodied forearm. The plane may have struck a high-altitude weather balloon owned by Windborne, its CEO said. A United Airlines jet whose ...

Thanks to A.I., companies like WindBorne hope to usher in a golden age of forecasting. But they rely in part on government data — and the agency that provides it is in turmoil. A WindBorne weather ...

A United Airlines plane appears to have collided with a weather balloon while cruising over Utah at 36,000 feet last week, fracturing layers of its windshield and forcing an emergency landing. A rare ...

Plane Hits Weather Balloon FILE - The United Airlines logo can be seen on a rope line at O'Hare International Airport, May 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Brian Kersey, File ...

A United Airlines plane appears to have collided with a weather balloon while cruising over Utah at 36,000 feet last week, fracturing layers of its windshield and forcing an emergency landing. A ...

(AP) - A United Airlines plane appears to have collided with a weather balloon while cruising over Utah at 36,000 feet last week, fracturing layers of its windshield and forcing an emergency landing.