Southwest Airlines passenger partially sucked out of destroyed window, dies

A Southwest Airlines jetliner made an unscheduled stop after a window cracked, two weeks after an accident on a separate plane in which a passenger was partially sucked out of a destroyed window and died.

The Washington Post says Flight 957 from Chicago‑Midway to New Jersey, didn't lose cabin pressure as it diverted to Cleveland.

An emergency wasn't declared.

The passenger window was broken, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The Boeing 737, which carried 76 passengers, was taken out of service.

Neither Southwest nor the authorities identified a cause of the problem with the window, in which cracks formed in multiple layers.

On April 17, a passenger was partially sucked out of a window after an engine exploded on Southwest Flight 1380 and hurled debris against the fuselage. The National Transportation Safety Board said it found signs of metal fatigue where a blade on an engine fan broke off.