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The Pilot Who Saved That Southwest Flight Is A Badass

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Via: bob-nelson • 8 years ago • 16 comments

The Pilot Who Saved That Southwest Flight Is A Badass

[Yesterday], flight 1380 was headed from New York to Dallas when its engine exploded. One person was reported dead following the incident, and one person was reportedly partially pulled through a broken window, one person suffered a heart attack, and others were hit with shrapnel.

According to social media posts from some of the 143 passengers on the flight, Tammi Jo Shults was the pilot who managed to navigate the flight for an emergency landing. She reportedly greeted passengers as they exited the plane after the landing.

Shults was one of the first women fighter pilots in U.S. Navy history, as well as being one of the first to pilot the F/A 18 jet, as reported by Heavy.com. Shults is from New Mexico, and joined the Navy in 1985, where she also flew the LTV A-7 Corsair as part of VAQ-34, an electronic aggressor squadron, according to All Hands, a Navy magazine.

Extract from the Original article by Justin T. Westbrook , in Foxtrot Alpha .

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Professor Guide

1 seeder Bob Nelson 8 years ago

"Is your aircraft on fire?"
"No, but part of it is missing..."

Badass, indeed...

Professor Quiet

2 Sunshine 8 years ago

She is a hero!

Professor Expert

3 Kavika 8 years ago

Listening to the audio between her and the ATC was amazing. They made it sound like a normal landing.

Kudos to Tammi.

Professor Participates

4 Raven Wing 8 years ago

Professionalism at its best. Way to hold it together under fire.

Professor Guide

5 Sparty On 8 years ago

Nice ...... Go Navy!

Professor Guide

7 Sparty On 8 years ago

Great job by the air traffic controllers as well!

Junior Quiet

8 Spikegary 8 years ago

These folks are trained to keep their emotions under control while they deal witht he emergency at hand. Lots of people that deserve praise in this horrible accident. The pilot leads the list.

Professor Quiet

8.1 Sunshine replied to Spikegary @8 8 years ago

Nerves of steel.

Sophomore Silent

9 luther28 8 years ago

A Female Sully, I'd want one of those two as my pilot. Whatever is considered the Female equivalent, She has a huge pair prevented a much larger tragedy.

Sophomore Silent

10 magnoliaave 8 years ago

Not enough can be said about the pilot and her crew!

Sophomore Silent

11 Old Hermit 8 years ago

Great job Lieutenant Commander!

Navy Releases Service Record of Hero Captain Who Landed Southwest 1380

The Navy has confirmed that Tammie Jo Shults, a Southwest pilot who successfully made an emergency landing after her aircraft suffered a massive engine failure and depressurized, was a pioneer for the Navy as one of the first female fighter pilots for the service.

Navy officials released Shults' service record Tuesday, revealing that she had risen to the rank of lieutenant commander in the service and eventually served as an instructor pilot for both the EA-6B Prowler and F/A-18 Hornet.

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Shults has spoken publicly in the past about opposition she faced as a woman in the male-dominated field of military aviation. Women were not even permitted to fly in combat operations until 1993, at the end of Shults' active-duty service.

In a 2004 story in the San Antonio Express-News, Shults is quoted describing training with a "surly F-18 instructor" who believed it "degrading" to have a woman in the cockpit.

"I told him Congress has stated that I am going to be here. If you don't like that, vote. But when you're wearing a uniform, your orders are to give me a check ride," Shults said, according to the publication.

Shults' husband Dean was reportedly also a Navy pilot.