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Southwest flight from sa国际传媒官网网页入口 makes emergency landing after windshield cracks midflight
Baltimore-bound passengers instead set foot in Tulsa
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A Southwest Airlines flight from sa国际传媒官网网页入口 bound for Baltimore made an emergency landing Monday after the plane鈥檚 front windshield cracked midflight.
Though outer panes of the windshield cracked, the cabin did not depressurize and passengers of Flight 2665 disembarked unharmed in Tulsa, Oklahoma, after the emergency landing Monday afternoon, Southwest spokesperson Lynn Lunsford said in a statement Tuesday.
鈥淭he flight landed uneventfully and customers were reaccommodated to Baltimore on another aircraft,鈥� the Dallas-based company said in an official statement Tuesday. 鈥淲e appreciate the professionalism of our flight crew. Nothing is more important to Southwest than the safety of our customers and employees.鈥�
Officials at Southwest did not elaborate about what caused the crack.
The aircraft was a little over an hour into its flight when pilots decided to make an emergency landing, according to flight-tracking website . Before landing, the plane had reached an altitude of 39,000 feet and was traveling at speeds of 518 mph, according to FlightAware.
After passengers disembarked, the plane taxied on the runway before docking at a terminal at the Tulsa International Airport.
The Boeing 737 jetliner was scheduled to fly to Charlotte, North Carolina, on Tuesday, according to FlightAware.
Gillian Barkhurst is a general assignment reporter for the Journal. She can be reached at gbarkhurst@abqjournal.com.
