Another Southwest Airlines flight makes emergency landing – this time after window cracks
The incident comes two weeks after an engine exploded during another Southwest flight, smashing a window and killing a passenger who was partly sucked through the opening
A Southwest Airlines flight made an emergency landing in Cleveland on Wednesday after a window pane cracked mid-flight, airline officials and the US Federal Aviation Administration said.
No one was injured in the incident, which came two weeks after an engine on a Southwest 737 ripped apart in flight and shattered a window, killing a female passenger who was sucked through the resulting hole. It was the first US airline passenger fatality since 2009.
The cause of Wednesday’s crack in one of the window’s multiple panes was not immediately known.
The flight, Southwest 957, was travelling to Newark Liberty International Airport from Chicago Midway International Airport with 76 passengers on board.
The crew diverted the Boeing Co 737-700 to Cleveland-Hopkins International Airport at about 11am local time to inspect a layer of a windowpane, said Southwest spokesman Brian Parrish.
“The aircraft has been taken out of service for maintenance review,” Parrish said.