Southwest flight makes emergency landing in Cleveland for broken window

CLEVELAND

A Newark-bound Southwest Airlines flight made an emergency landing in Cleveland today after a window cracked.

Southwest Airlines flight WN957 took off from Chicago Midway International. A portion of a window next to a row of passenger seats appeared to be missing.

Southwest issued a statement saying that the plane's flight crew "made the decision to divert the plane to Cleveland for maintenance review of one of the multiple layers of a window pane."

"The flight landed uneventfully in Cleveland," the statement read.