Delta plane makes emergency landing at DIA, windshield shattered

A flight bound for Salt Lake City from Boston made an emergency landing at Denver worldwide Airport after it was damaged during a hail storm over the border of Nebraska and eastern Colorado on Friday night.

In addition to the windshields, the hail also severely damaged the aircrafts nose cone, which houses much of its navigation equipment.

Sorensen said the pilot then reported the windshield was cracked and that they needed to land in Denver as a precaution.

“I fly constantly and this was the scariest 10 minutes of my life”, passenger Robin Jones told KSTU. Coale didn’t provide a reason, but did say the plane went through “severe turbulence”.

Delta says passengers were transferred to another plane, and they arrived in Salt Lake City early Saturday morning.

PHOTO: Jeff Johnson posted this photo to Twitter on August. 8, 2015 with the caption, “Hail damage to my plane while flying from Boston to Salt Lake”.

Passenger Rob Wessman told KSTU about seeing the damage after departing the plane. “It was really intense”.

The passenger said that they way out west was mostly clear, except when the flight became rocky as it approached mountainous Colorado, according to the Weather Channel.

The Federal Aviation Administration plans to investigate the incident.