Broken Window Forces Southwest Airlines Flight To Make Emergency Landing, All On Board Reported Safe

The New York Daily News reports:

A Newark-bound Southwest Airlines flight made an emergency landing in Cleveland Wednesday after a window cracked. Photographs taken by a passenger on Southwest Airlines flight WN957, which took off from Chicago Midway International, show a broken window next to a row of passenger seats.

A portion of the window’s glass appeared to be missing. Southwest issued a statement saying that the plane’s flight crew “made the decision to divert the plane to Cleveland for maintenance review of one of the multiple layers of a window pane.”

BREAKING Southwest #WN957 made an emergency landing in Cleveland after a window shattered mid-air https://t.co/EerSSfLZlK

— AIRLIVE (@airlivenet) May 2, 2018

#BREAKING: Southwest Flight 957 from Chicago-Midway to Newark has landed in Cleveland due to an issue with a window. 76 passengers being booked on new aircraft to Newark. Photo: Passenger Linda Holley pic.twitter.com/gyNkVpHBxZ

— Carol Costello (@CarolHLN) May 2, 2018

Window broke mid flight to Newark from Chicago @SouthwestAir #WhatsGoingOn pic.twitter.com/JQxUgebXI7

— Deepak Chawla (@deepak_9284) May 2, 2018