A Southwest Airlines cloud from Chicago to Newark, New Jersey, diverted to Cleveland on Wednesday because of a smash airplane window. No injures were reported, the airline said.
The deviation comes two weeks after a passenger was killed when a window whistled out during a Southwest flight.
Flight 957 was flying from Chicago to Newark with 76 fares aboard when the crew decided to divert the plane to Cleveland to survey “one of the multiple layers of a window pane,” the airline said.
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The cabin maintained pressurization because each window is rip off of multiple panes, Southwest said, adding that no emergency deplaning was requested.
“The aircraft has been taken out of service for maintenance review,” communicated the airline.
On April 17, a fan blade broke off an engine of a Southwest Boeing 737-700, sending shrapnel a gasket that punctured the fuselage as the plane was flying above 30,000 feet. A rider was partially sucked out of the window and died, marking the first fatality of a traveller aboard a U.S. airline since 2009.
The pilot of Flight 1380 made a suitable emergency landing in Philadelphia, bringing the plane down quickly as the bothy depressurized.
The passenger’s death was Southwest’s first in its 47 years of bugbear. In response to the incident, the airline removed its promotions and other marketing. Ultimately week, executives said that bookings dropped following Send packing 1380 and warned investors that the company would lose an estimated $50 million to $100 million in gate as a result.
The airline has canceled dozens of flights to inspect fan blades on the appliances on its Boeing 737 fleet and said Tuesday that it expects to accomplished the desk by mid-May. The Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday mandated airlines peruse more engine fan blades, expanding an order it issued in the wake of the accessory last month.