Passengers on a New Jersey-bound plane were in for a fright when the aircraft suddenly plunged thousands of feet. The incident happened in October and sent 15 people to the hospital. Now, officials have a likely cause, and it’s out of this world, quite literally.

Space experts believe cosmic rays from a star in another galaxy struck the plane, causing the aircraft to fail. Speaking with space.com, Clive Dyer, a space and radiation expert from the University of Surrey, explained what he thinks happened. He believes high-energy particles caused by a supernova hit the JetBlue Airbus A320.

Plane Plunges From Sky

The flight had been headed to Newark from Cancun. That’s when it suddenly started to fall out of the sky.

“[Cosmic rays] can interact with modern microelectronics and change the st

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