On 17 Apr 2018 20:15:30 -0700, Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com>
wrote:
>more at
>https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the-pilot-who-saved-that-southwest-flight-is-a-badass-1825341463
>
>Tammie Jo Shults, reportedly one of the pilots responsible for landing the
>Southwest Airlines flight 1380 that experienced an engine explosion earlier
>today, was also one of the first women pilots in the Navy and one of the first
>women to fly the F/A 18 fighter jet.
>
>Earlier today, 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.
>
>From All Hands:
>
>Chances for women to gain as much knowledge about the aviation community are
>limited.
>
>
>
>2006 article that is no longer online but can be accessed in a forum about
>commission in 1993 and joined Southwest Airlines.
Sadly,this was also the first fatality in Southwest's history.
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