WTH IS Going On?! ANOTHER Southwest Window Shatters Mid Flight

I flew on a Southwest flight to come home for my brother’s college graduation last night.

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I sat in a window seat. NO part of me thought to be worried about what happened to that woman a few weeks back.

It was just a really tragic fluke.Right?

Eeerrrr…

ANOTHER window busted out of a Southwest flight yesterday.
According to this:

A Southwest Airlines flight from Chicago to Newark was forced to divert to Cleveland today after a window broke at 26,000 feet – just two weeks after a woman died after being partially sucked out of a window on another Southwest 737-700 jet.

Flight 957 was diverted to Cleveland, Ohio for a broken outside window pane about two hours into its flight, around 11am.

Passenger Linda Holley texted her son that the window broke and caused a ‘loud noise’. Another traveler told the DansDeals website that passengers seated in the row ‘ran away’ and others on the flight started ‘crying hysterically’.

Southwest issued a statement, but didn’t explain how the window broke. No one was injured.

EEEK… Maybe I’ll sit in the aisle on my way back…

‘The Crew of Southwest Flight 957, with scheduled service from Chicago Midway International Airport to Newark Liberty International Airport, made an unscheduled stop at Cleveland-Hopkins International Airport for maintenance review of a potential crack to the outer pane of a window.

‘There are multiple layers of panes in each aircraft window. No emergency landing was declared. The aircraft maintained pressurization, and the flight landed uneventfully in Cleveland.

‘The aircraft has been taken out of service for maintenance review, and our local Cleveland Employees worked diligently to accommodate the 76 Customers on a new aircraft to Newark. The safety of our Customers and Employees is our number one focus each and every day,’ the statement reads.

Because the cabin never lost pressure, oxygen masks never fell down.

Patrick Smith, the pilot behind AskThePilot.com, told DailyMail.com that Wednesday’s incident doesn’t seem serious, and that it was probably only in the news because of the deadly accident two weeks ago.

‘It appears that one layer of the inner window pane failed for some reason. It’s hard to say why at this point, but the result was nothing serious.

‘If not for the fatality on board the Southwest flight a couple of weeks ago, it’s unlikely we’d be talking about this at all. The two incidents are completely unrelated, and this latest one is particularly minor,’ Smith said.

OOOKAY THEN.

I mean, it seems kind of serious to me. I tend to rest my head against the window when I fall asleep… I might try to avoid that in the future.

And it looks like others are avoiding Southwest all together…

The nation’s fourth-largest airline has seen ticket sales slow since the April 17 engine failure. Southwest estimates the drop in sales will cost it between $50 million and $100 million.

YIKES!

That’s a lot of dough.

Will this affect the way YOU fly?