Cracked Window Forces Flight To NJ To Make Landing

A cracked window in the passenger compartment of a Southwestern Airlines flight heading to Newark Liberty International Airport forced the plane to make an unscheduled landing Wednesday morning in Cleveland, according to the air carrier. Flight 957 was carrying 76 people on its way from Chicago's Midway Airport before landing at Cleveland Hopkins Airport.

No one was hurt in the incident, a Southwest representative told Patch, adding that "[t]he flight landed uneventfully in Cleveland."

"No emergency landing was requested, and the flight landed uneventful with no reported injuries," the representative said.

The crack in one of the multiple layers of the window pane was discovered after the plane took off from Midway on its way to Newark Liberty International Airport, according to a statement by the airline. Because of the multiple panes, the plane did not lose pressurization while in flight, the airline said.

The incident comes several weeks after one person was killed after a Southwest jet engine caught fire and a piece of shrapnel pierced a window, partially sucking a woman out of a plane and forcing an emergency landing at Philadelphia International Airport, National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Robert Sumwalt said. RELATED: Woman Partially Sucked Out Jet Window, Forcing Landing: 1 Dead

In that incident, the person was killed when the engine on a Dallas-to-New York Southwest flight caught fire.

Patch will continue to update this story.

Patch editor CHRIS MOSBY and JOE VINCE contributed to this report.

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