Airplane with 37 passengers diverts to Birmingham airport after windshield cracked
By Kent Faulk -- The Birmingham News

September 20, 2009, 9:25AM

An airplane carrying 37 passengers had to make an emergency landing at Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport this morning after its windshield cracked, an airport spokeswoman said.

Pilots on the Comair CRJ called in an emergency at 8:50 a.m., said Toni Bast, manager of public relations and marketing at the airport. The plane landed safely at 9 a.m., she said.

The plane had been in route from Cincinnati to New Orleans when it diverted to the airport, Bast said. No information was available on how the aircraft's windshield had cracked, she said.

UPDATE: Christine Wever, a spokeswoman for Comair said that another plane was being flown to Birmingham to pick up passengers and take them on to their destination.

Wever said that the crack was on a side window on the first officer's side of the airplane's cockpit. She did not know how the crack occurred.

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