Ride Out The Turbulence: Flying, Landing And Overcoming Adversity
When it comes to times of uncertainty, few things equal losing an engine when you’re 32,000 feet in the air. Now, imagine you are the one at the controls of…
Chaos in the sky, female fighter pilot looks back
History was made in the skies over Super Bowl 55 in Tampa, Florida when a female pilot, Captain Sarah Kociuba, led the flyover before the game. But years before, Naval…
Southwest Pilot Who Landed Fatal Flight Wasn’t Supposed to Be On It
Everything was going smoothly until Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 reached about 32,000 feet. Then there was chaos. A deafening bang. A puff of gray smoke. Oxygen masks dropped. At first, the…
Pilots who safely landed Southwest flight after deadly engine failure on what happened in the cockpit
Tammie Jo Shults and Darren Ellisor, the pilots who safely landed a Southwest Airlines plane on April 17 after one of its engines failed, said it was teamwork and training that…
Southwest Pilot Speaks Out For the First Time Since Her ‘Heroic’ Emergency Landing
The Southwest Airlines pilot hailed as a “hero” for safely landing Flight 1380 after a deadly engine explosion last month said that as the chaos unfolded in the air, it felt like a flashback to…
When Southwest 1380’s engine failed, the cockpit was so loud the pilots had to use hand signals to communicate
(CNN) When an engine failed on a Southwest Airlines flight last month, pilot Tammie Jo Shults didn’t panic. Instead, she fell back on her extensive Navy experience. “My first thoughts were…
Heroic crew of Southwest Flight 1380 describe bond, faith that pulled them through chaos
About 20 minutes after Southwest Flight 1380 took off from New York's LaGuardia Airport on April 17, one of the plane's engines exploded, sending debris through a passenger window and causing…
Southwest 1380 Landing Proves Study Of Single Pilot Cargo Aircraft Is “Silly,’ Pilot Leader Says
A provision that would enable a study of single-pilot operation of cargo aircraft, strongly opposed by pilot groups, remains on the table as part of legislation to reauthorize the Federal…
Southwest emergency landing pilot Tammie Jo Shults is a pioneer with ‘Nerves of Steel’
As one of the first female fighter pilots in the U.S. military, Tammie Jo Shults is no stranger to displaying 'Nerves of Steel." Cool, calm and deliberate, Shults brought her twin-engine Boeing…
‘Nerves of steel’: She calmly landed the Southwest flight, just as you’d expect of a former fighter pilot
The pilot's voice was calm yet focused as her plane descended with 149 people on board. "Southwest 1380, we're single engine," Capt. Tammie Jo Shults, a former fighter pilot with…
