American MD82 near Jacksonville on Apr 6th 2014, cabin did not pressurize

An American Airlines McDonnell Douglas MD-82, registration N558AA performing flight AA-1363 from Jacksonville,FL to Dallas Ft. Worth,TX (USA) with 130 passengers and 5 crew, was climbing out of Jacksonville when the crew stopped the climb at FL240 due to problems with the cabin pressure and continued in the general direction of Dallas deviating around weather. The crew subsequently decided to divert to Birmingham,AL (USA) for a safe landing about 70 minutes after departure.

A replacement MD-82 registration N486AA reached Dallas with a delay of 8.5 hours.

The airline confirmed pressurization issues as cause for the diversion to Birmingham.