CRACKED windshield at 38000 ft. Southwest Boeing 737 declares emergency west of Las Vegas. Real ATC

THIS VIDEO IS A RECONSTRUCTION OF THE FOLLOWING SITUATION IN FLIGHT:

20-JAN-2024. A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-800 (B738), registration N8549Z, performing flight SWA3244 / WN3244 from Las Vegas Harry Reid International Airport, NV (USA) to Portland International Airport, OR (USA) was about 100 miles north-west of Las Vegas at about 38000 feet when the flight crew declared an emergency, reported cracked windshield and requested descend to 10000 feet. Later the pilots decided to return back the airport of departure.

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Image from thumbnail was provided by a passenger.
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Timestamps:

00:00 Description of situation
00:17 Southwest 3244 climbs out of Las Vegas
00:24 Cracked windshield. Southwest 3244 declares an emergency and starts descent to 10000 feet.
00:58 The flight crew decides to go back to Las Vegas Harry Reid International Airport
03:32 The pilots contact Las Vegas Approach controller
07:42 The airplane was transferred to the frequency of Tower controller
08:12 Landing. Communications on the ground
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THE VALUE OF THIS VIDEO:
THE MAIN VALUE IS EDUCATION. This reconstruction will be useful for actual or future air traffic controllers and pilots, people who plan to connect life with aviation, who like aviation. With help of this video reconstruction you’ll learn how to use radiotelephony rules, Aviation English language and general English language (for people whose native language is not English) in situation in flight, which was shown. THE MAIN REASON I DO THIS IS TO HELP PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND EVERY EMERGENCY SITUATION, EVERY WORD AND EVERY MOVE OF AIRCRAFT.

SOURCES OF MATERIAL, LICENSES AND PERMISSIONS:
Source of communications – https://www.liveatc.net/ (I have a permission (Letter) for commercial use of radio communications from LiveATC.net).
Map, aerial pictures (License (ODbL) ©OpenStreetMap -https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyrig...) Permission for commercial use, royalty-free use.
Radar screen (In new versions of videos) – Made by author.
Text version of communication – Made by Author.
Video editing - Made by author.

HOW I DO VIDEOS:
1) I monitor media, airspace, looking for any non-standard, emergency and interesting situation.
2) I find communications of ATC unit for the period of time I need.
3) I take only phrases between air traffic controller and selected flight.
4) I find a flight path of selected aircraft.
5) I make an animation (early couple of videos don’t have animation) of flight path and aircraft, where the aircraft goes on his route.
6) When I edit video I put phrases of communications to specific points in video (in tandem with animation).
7) Together with my comments (voice and text) I edit and make a reconstruction of emergency, non-standard and interesting situation in flight.