This was the third time that a window cracked on an ANA Dreamliner, but the cockpit window has five layers, and Friday's crack, in a spider web pattern, appeared in the outer layer, ANA said.

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He was staring down at the checkerboard pattern on the linoleum floor, as if it were a code he was trying to crack.

NEWYORKER: Temporary