‘Nerves of steel’: She calmly landed the Southwest flight, just as you’d expect of a former fighter

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‘Nerves of steel’: She calmly landed the Southwest flight, just as you’d expect of a former fighter pilot

by Samantha Schmidt April 18 at 8:36 AM

Tammie Jo Shults has been hailed a hero for safely landing the Southwest plane that lost an engine on April 17.

The pilot’s voice was calm yet focused as her plane descended with 149 people on board.

“Southwest 1380, we’re single engine,” said Capt. Tammie Jo Shults, a former fighter pilot with the U.S. Navy. “We have part of the aircraft missing, so we’re going to need to slow down a bit.” She asked for medical personnel to meet her aircraft on the runway. “We’ve got injured passengers.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/04/18/nerves-of-steel-she-calmly-landed-the-southwest-flight-and-broke-barriers-as-a-fighter-pilot/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.b0e83f77e07c