Wednesday, April 18, 2018

How She Calmly Landed Yesterday's Stricken Airliner

Nerves of steel...

Tammie Jo Schults, the pilot who flew the stricken Southwest plane to safety yesterday.

The pilot's voice was calm yet focused as her plane descended with 149 people on board, Samanthan Schmidt reports on washingtonpost.com.

"Southwest1380, we're single engine." said Tammie Jo Schults, a former fighter pilot with the U.S. Navy, according to Schmidt.

"We have part of the aircraft missing, so we're going to need to slow down a bit," Schmidt added.

She asked for medical personnel to meet her on the runway.  "We've got injured passengers," Schmidt noted.

For more on yesterday's ill-fated Southwest flight and the excellent pilot who safely landed the stricken airliner: https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/04/18/nerves-of-steel-she-calmly-landed-the-southwest-flight-and-broke-barriers-as-a-fighter-pilot/

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