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United Airlines Maintenance Hung Out The Cockpit Window With A Coat Hanger — They Had To Swap The Jet

Passengers on a United flight from Newark to Austin watched maintenance lean out of the cockpit window with what looked like a coat hanger to prod a sensor on the nose of a Boeing 737. The optics for an onlooking passenger aren't great. United did not send out that aircraft.

10 April 2026Source: View from the Wing