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Southwest Flight 957 was headed to Newark Liberty International Airport when it made an emergency landing at Cleveland-Hopkins International Airport for "maintenance review of one of the multiple layers of a window pane," according to Southwest. The airline notes that each window has multiple layers of panes.
The plane, which carried 76 passengers, landed successfully and there were no reports of depressurization, Southwest said. No injuries were reported.
In a statement, Southwest said: "The flight landed uneventfully in Cleveland. The aircraft has been taken out of service for maintenance review, and our local Cleveland Employees are working diligently to accommodate the 76 Customers on a new aircraft to Newark."
Eliott Wolbrom, of Staten Island, New York, said he received a WhatsApp group chat message at about 10:40 a.m. from passenger Hirsch Chinn, a relative who lives in a Chicago suburb, as events unfolded mid-air.
"All good so far. A few crying passengers. I reassured the flight attendants 'no one is dying today,'" Chinn's message read in part.
"I'm praying inside... I'm panicking to an extent internally. There's nothing you can do," recalled Wolbrom of his reaction to reading Chinn's note, adding "Hearing a loved one and a family member telling me that they're in that situation in real time... It was surreal."
Chinn later sent Wolbrom several photos of the cracked window, which appears to have jagged edges. Wolbrom said Chinn checked in before take-off aboard the new flight out of Cleveland and that he believes Chinn and his family are ok.
"Your mind can't help but go back to two weeks ago," Wolbrom said during his reflection of this morning's incident.
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating.
Wednesday afternoon, passengers were emailed $500 vouchers for future use.
The incident occurred about two weeks after a 43-year-old woman was partially sucked out of Southwest Airlines plane after debris from an engine explosion blew out the window.
Jennifer Riordan, 43, was the first person to die on an American airline in almost 10 years in the April 17 incident. The plane, destined for Dallas, had taken off from LaGuardia International Airport in New York when the engine blew about 20 minutes into the flight. The pilot managed to safely land the plane in Philadelphia.
Last week, passenger Lilia Chavez filed a lawsuit against Southwest Airlines, GE Aviation, Safran Aircraft Engines and CFM International, a supplier of jet engines, in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. She alleges "mental anguish" as a result of the incident.
Chavez was sitting three rows behind where Riordan was partially sucked out the window, the lawsuit says.
"Ms. Chavez witnessed the horror as the force of the depressurization pulled an innocent passenger partially through the shattered window and she watched as passengers risked their lives to pull the passenger back into the aircraft and save her life," the lawsuit says.
According to Chavez, the cabin became "a whirlwind of airflow and airborne debris which struck Ms. Chavez and obstructed her breathing."
In a letter to passengers on the April 17 flight, which was obtained by ABC News, the airline offered sincere apologies as well as a $5,000 check and the promise of a $1,000 travel voucher.
NTSB investigators are looking into the accident in Washington, D.C., and expect to announce a probable cause and more safety recommendations in 12 to 15 months. Southwest pilot Tammie Jo Shults, a former Navy fighter pilot, was called a "true American hero" by one passenger for being able to safely land the crippled plane.
Meanwhile, airlines are under an order to inspect engines like the one that failed on Flight 1380 by May 10.
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Tsofia Langer / Sophie (Fieke) Asscher (1926-2002) "Sleeping Beauty," 1944
after the German invasion of the Netherlands
15-year-old Tsofia (Fieke) Langer-Asscher was forced to leave her school in Groningen and move with her mother Clara to Amsterdam
where she studied at an art school established for Jewish children
she was forced into hiding under a false identity in Christian homes in the Friesland region of the northern Netherlands with the help of the Dutch underground
"I felt that I brought danger with me wherever I went
at any address that opened the door for me
was like a contagious disease," she said in her testimony
"People who theoretically could have lived a fairly normal life chose otherwise
Tsofia's creations – which feature fairy tale characters at a time when she faced terror, loneliness and uncertainty regarding the fate of her family – are part of a new exhibition, "An Anchor in the Darkness: Creating Art in Hiding during the Holocaust," which is part of Yad Vashem's series of ready2print exhibitions
"Mortal danger sometimes arouses in a person a spiritual greatness and awesome creative powers," explains Yad Vashem's Museums Division Director Vivian Uria
in the darkest days of the history of humanity
there were Jews who created in hiding – in forests
The strong need to create and express their experiences in such a harsh reality
mostly through improvisation of creative materials
and the wish to document the tragedy that befell their people testifies more than anything to the power of the human spirit."
The exhibition focuses on works created in the unique circumstances of hiding – often for extended periods of time in which the person was trapped both in the hiding place and inside their own consciousness
they gathered internal strength while building a shell of survival in the extreme reality of murder
the personal experiences of the creator are interwoven within the historical story
expressing what was happening in their inner world while also constituting historical evidence
The works in the exhibition reflect two faces of the work in hiding – a spiritual refuge and the documentation of reality
In the works of the children Jack (Kuba) Jaget and Nelly Toll
the home and life that existed before the war were expressed; faith and identity were reflected in the work of Jacob Barosin
who testified that reading the scriptures in hiding had a great effect on him
and at this time he began to create initial sketches that he later used for the illustrated bible he created after the Holocaust
The painter Felix Nussbaum and his artist wife Felka Platek went into hiding in occupied Belgium
when they realized that the Gestapo was following them
they left their home and sought refuge with the sculptor Dolf Ladel
The couple stayed with him until March 1943
when the couple was forced to return to their previous home
who was a member of the Belgian underground
which he made sure to furnish for them while leaving the apartment itself empty in order to mislead the Germans in case they came to search
the Nussbaums tried to occupy themselves and overcome their fear by painting the objects and furniture around them
They could not use oil paint because the pervasive smell of turpentine would have given away their location
The exhibition features two of the still life paintings painted by Nussbaum in this short period
in which everyday objects are accurately described and recorded in their three-dimensional space
depicts the corner of the room between a rough table or flower stand and the sink – the meagre kitchen utensils and single plant are visible testimony to their seclusion and their necessarily restricted field of vision.; the everyday objects are noted precisely and carefully in their three-dimensional from
as if the artist needed to be reassured of their physical presence
that also meant reassurance of his own existence
the couple was arrested following a tip-off
from where they were sent on the last transport that left Belgium
records in her sketches two of her rescuers: the priest brothers of the Celis family
Hubert Celis from the Belgian town of Hemel helped find refuge for Regine's two younger brothers
13-year-old Wolfgang and nine-year-old Sigmund
Louis Celis; and he moved 16-year-old Regine and her two-year-old sister Sonia to the home of the priests' father
the parents were caught and sent by train to Auschwitz
The elderly man insisted that Regine was a member of his family
and even tried to resist her arrest by force
Regine was taken away and later sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau
she sent on a death march to Ravensbrück and from there to Malchow and Leipzig
she returned to the home of the Celis family
where she was reunited with her three siblings
their rescuers were recognized as Righteous Among the Nations
In the works of those who were forced into hiding
both artists who were educated in their field and those who were taking their first steps in painting
a strong urge to document the reality they experienced and to commemorate it – the hiding place and its surroundings
their rescuers and also those around them who shared the hiding place with them – is evident
the creators sailed into the realms of the imagination
painting portraits of their loved ones and depicting their past
it seems that the works in hiding answered the artists' need to cling to a familiar and stable anchor in difficult and dark days characterized by uncertainty and constant existential danger
This need is the motif that runs through the works in the new exhibition
Order the exhibition for display in your community
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MA -- Woburn resident Janet Wolbrom ran into some unwelcome companions when she took an early morning walk around Horn Pond Thursday
Wolbrom posted a photo on Facebook showing one of the two coyotes she encountered
The coyotes were guarding the footbridge on the walking trail that circles the pond
"They decided to quietly disappear into the woods and let me pass," Wolbrom wrote in her post to the Horn Pond Facebook page
"Happy I didn't come up to them on the narrow trail."
Coyotes are generally afraid of humans unless they feel they need to defend their territory
But small pets that are left outside unattended can become prey for the animals
which tend to move about between dusk and dawn during the fall and winter months
The typical coyote patrols an area that is between two and 30 square miles in size
In a densely-populated state like Massachusetts
coyotes are not necessarily something humans need to fear
Woburn has one full-time and on part-time animal control officer. Animal Control Officer Jay Donovan can be reached at jdonovan@woburnpd.com or call by calling 781-932-4510 X4824. In the meantime, the MSPCA offers the following pointers for dealing with coyotes and other wildlife:
the MSPCA notes that coyote attacks on humans are not something that you should lsoe too much sleep over
"The reality is that the chance of being attacked by a coyote is extremely low
there have been only five people bitten by a coyote in Massachusetts since the 1950s," the MSPCA said
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