Southwest plane makes emergency landing after window cracks

A Southwest plane.
(Image credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Just two weeks after a Southwest Airlines plane suffered an engine failure, resulting in a passenger's death, another Southwest jet has suffered physical damage in-flight and had to be diverted.

Flight 957, originally slated to fly from Chicago to New Jersey, was rerouted to land in Cleveland on Wednesday after one of its windows cracked, The Washington Post reported. Only "one layer in a multi-layered window pane" was cracked, ABC News explained, causing the flight to stop in Cleveland for maintenance.

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Shivani is the editorial assistant at TheWeek.com and has previously written for StreetEasy and Mic.com. A graduate of the physics and journalism departments at NYU, Shivani currently lives in Brooklyn and spends free time cooking, watching TV, and taking too many selfies.