Jim Macklin wrote:
How cold did it get in Denver? Aluminum and plastic have
different contraction rates with cold. Plastic also gets
brittle with cold. Wind flexes wing, which also flexes
fuselages, erg---cracks.

It can't be as cold as the jets routinely see above 30,000 feet. I
suspect the wind was carrying stones or ice chunks or something like
that which cracked the windshields.


Matt