A New Jersey-bound Southwest Airlines Co. flight made an emergency landing in Cleveland on Wednesday, May 1, after a window pane cracked in flight, airline officials and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said.
No one was injured in the incident, which came two weeks after an engine on a Southwest 737 ripped apart in flight and shattered a window, killing a female passenger in the first U.S. airline passenger fatality since 2009.
“The aircraft has been taken out of service for maintenance review,” Parrish said.
FAA spokesman Tony Molinaro, who said no one was hurt, said the organization was investigating the incident.
The FAA on Tuesday ordered additional inspections of fan blades in hundreds of additional engines similar to the one that failed in the deadly Southwest accident on April 17.
Southwest said it has not found any cracks on fan blades inspected since the accident.
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