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Window broke mid flight to Newark from Chicago @SouthwestAir #WhatsGoingOn pic.twitter.com/JQxUgebXI7

— Deepak Chawla (@deepak_9284) May 2, 2018

Hirsch Chinn, a passenger on the flight, told ABC News that other passengers on board quickly changed seats upon discovering the cracked window.

\"Crew was fabulous,\" Chinn about the flight's staff.

This incident comes a day after President Donald Trump honored the crew of another Southwest flight that made an emergency landing two weeks ago in Philadelphia. On that flight, Southwest 1380, passenger Jennifer Riordan died after an engine exploded mid-flight and a window was blown out.

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