Olga Custodio, first Latina US Air Force pilot, tells her story at Wisconsin forum
By ANDREW DOWD | Leader-Telegram, Eau Claire, Wis. | Published: September 20, 2019
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (Tribune News Service) — Her T-38 Talon fighter jet was airborne and then — bang — a bird strikes the windscreen, blotting out all visibility for pilot-in-training Olga Custodio.
“I look up and there’s blood and feathers all over my windscreen,†the trailblazing Latina said during her speech Thursday night at UW-Eau Claire.
But she calmly followed procedures she’d studied — checking her instruments, reporting her situation — and made an emergency landing safely back to the runway at Laughlin Air Force Base in Texas.
https://www.stripes.com/news/us/olga-custodio-first-latina-us-air-force-pilot-tells-her-story-at-wisconsin-forum-1.599807
