2nd Southwest Flight Forced To Land After Philadelphia Incident

Just two weeks after Southwest Airlines flight 1380 conducted an emergency landing at the Philadelphia International Airport due to engine failure, a broken window, and injured passengers, another Southwest flight was forced to land in Cleveland on Wednesday, May 2.

A cracked window in the passenger compartment of Southwest flight WN957 forced the plane to land at Cleveland Hopkins Airport, Patch correspondent Chris Mosby reports.

Unlike the flight 1380 incident on April 17 – in which Jennifer Riordan, 43, of New Mexico, died and several other passengers were hurt as the cabin lost pressure when a window broke – there were no injuries on flight WN957.

Flight WN957 was headed to Newark from Chicago Midway with 76 passengers Wednesday morning and maintained cabin pressure during the incident, landing "uneventfully" in Cleveland, according to Southwest officials.

After the flight 1380 incident, Southwest issued an apology letter to passengers, as well as a $5,000 check and a $1,000 travel voucher.

Capt. Tammie Jo Shults, who was one of the Navy's first female fighter pilots, was lauded as the hero of flight 1380 for her calm, collected demeanor during the mid-flight emergency and keeping passenger injury to a minimum.

With reporting by Chris Mosby

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