A Southwest plane makes emergency landing after window breaks during flight

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The Southwest flight made an emergency landing in Cleveland at 10:32 a.m.

• A Southwest Airlines flight from Chicago to Newark made an emergency landing in Cleveland due to a broken window, the airline has confirmed. 
• The flight took off at 9:53 a.m. and diverted to make the emergency landing at 10:32 a.m, according to FlightAware.
• A Twitter user posted photos of the broken window at 11:14 a.m.

A Southwest Airlines flight from Chicago to Newark made an emergency landing in Cleveland due to a broken window, the airline has confirmed to Business Insider. 

The flight took off at 9:53 a.m. and diverted to make the emergency landing at 10:32 a.m, according to FlightAware.

A Twitter user posted photos of the broken window at 11:14 a.m.

"The Crew of Southwest Flight 957, with scheduled service from Chicago-Midway to Newark, made the decision to divert the plane to Cleveland for maintenance review of one of the multiple layers of a window pane," Southwest said in a statement to Business Insider. "The flight landed uneventfully in Cleveland. The aircraft has been taken out of service for maintenance review, and our local Cleveland Employees are working diligently to accommodate the 76 Customers on a new aircraft to Newark."

In April, a Southwest flight made an emergency landing in Philadelphia after an engine exploded. One passenger died on the flight and seven were injured. The passenger who was killed was identified as Jennifer Riordan, 43.

National Transportation Safety Board chairman Robert Sumwalt said the death was the first in a US passenger airline accident in over nine years. Before Tuesday, the most recent fatal accident came in February 2009 near Buffalo, New York, when an aircraft operated by the now-defunct regional airline Colgan Air crashed. Fifty people were killed in that crash - 49 people on the plane and one person on the ground.

The NTSB sent a team to Philadelphia to investigate the crash on April 17. The agency said a full investigation will take 12-15 months

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