Southwest Airlines plane makes emergency landing after passenger window cracks

Drama on US flight comes two weeks after woman was killed on another Southwest plane

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Images of the window were posted on social media sites by passengers
(Image credit: Twitter)

A Southwest Airlines flight had to make an emergency landing yesterday after a window cracked mid-flight.

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