Another Southwest Flight Suffers from Broken Window
By NY Post. A Newark-bound Southwest airliner from Chicago made an emergency landing Wednesday after a window cracked in midair — just two weeks after a woman died after being partially sucked through a window that shattered after an engine blew apart on another Southwest jet.
“There was a loud pop and then the pilot came out and then checked things out; and then he announced we had to divert to Cleveland,” shaken passenger Chris Speros, 27, told The Post after arriving at Newark Liberty Airport on a replacement plane.
@SouthwestAir #WN957 diverts and makes emergency landing in CLE due to busted window pic.twitter.com/OJMZ5KTyMS
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“It was pretty tense because he announced there was a crack in the window. We still had pressure in the cabin, but he wasn’t sure how much longer we were going to have it.”
On April 17, Jennifer Riordan died from injuries she sustained when she was nearly sucked out of a blown-out window on a Dallas-bound Southwest Boeing 737 out of La Guardia. (Read more from “Another Southwest Flight Suffers from Broken Window” HERE)
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Passengers Heard Window Popping on Southwest Plane
By AP. assengers on a Southwest Airlines plane first heard a loud pop and then scurried away when they saw a jagged crack in a window that forced the jet to land in Cleveland on Wednesday.
Some on board immediately thought back to just two weeks ago when a jet engine blew apart and broke a window, leading to a woman being partially sucked out and killed aboard another Southwest flight.
“It made you nervous because something like this just happened,” said passenger Paul Upshaw of Chicago, who was about two seats from the window. “We didn’t know if it was going to crack open.” (Read more from “Passengers Heard Window Popping on Southwest Plane” HERE)
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