AS345 - Incident: Alaska B739 near Missoula on Oct 11th 2024

An Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-900, registration N288AK performing flight AS-345 from Columbus,OH to Seattle,WA (USA), was enroute at FL360 about 100nm east of Missoula,MT when the crew decided to divert to Missoula due to a cracked windshield. The aircraft landed safely on Missoula's runway 29 about 25 minutes later.

A replacement Boeing 737-900 registration N402AS reached Seattle with a delay of about 7:15 hours.

The occurrence aircraft is still on the ground in Missoula about 19 hours after landing.