One Of The First Navy Female Fighter Pilots Landed Southwest Flight With Blown Engine
One of the first female Navy pilots in history landed the Southwest Airlines plane forced to make an..
One of the first female Navy pilots in history landed the Southwest Airlines plane forced to make an emergency landing after the engine blew out, according to a Tuesday report.
Navy pilot Tammie Jo Shults landed Southwest Flight 1380 after part of its left engine was destroyed, causing a window on the plane to crack open. The woman sitting by the window was almost sucked out of the plane but fellow passengers grabbed her.
The flight was en route to Dallas Love airport from New York City but was forced to make an emergency landing in Philadelphia, Pa. Shults, 56, kept calm throughout the horrific incident, as heard in audio from her conversation with air traffic controllers.
After takeoff, a small piece of the airplanes engine reportedly broke off and smashed a window of the plane while at an altitude of approximately 32,000 ft.
Shults was able to land the plane even though the planes engine had been blown out.
“We dropped probably from 30,000 feet to 25,000 feet, and then the pilot kind of regained control and brought it down safely to Philadelphia,” a passenger told Heavy.
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