Cracked Window at 36000 feet
that a good question what os the reason that it happend
before the windshield cracked we had a causion message of the window heat system, i think thatb this alert was because the window was carcked ,
you can hve few possibilities
one jus fatige of the windshiled,
2nd may be the window had hstory of bird strike , that was not dammage the window , but may be made it weaker, , may be a diffrent of tempruture or
we were very lucky thanks to the 3 layers of the glass window , while we were left with the last one only , should we were few more minutes at this altitude with doinf nothing that could be disaster.
what the checklist asked us to do is to go down and slow down , down to 8000 feet slow down to 205 KTS
And increase the cabin pressure to 6.2 PSI
In other words the checklist asked us to make the airplane cabin less preserized to a point that the diddrent between the outdise and the inside will be 6.2 PSI and that to reduce the pressure on the window
that happend 200 miles from Dallas fort word about 50 minutes of flight,
i hope that my explanation was simple
Ofer