Nerves of Steel is the captivating true story of Tammie Jo Shults’s remarkable life—from growing up the daughter of a humble rancher, to breaking through gender barriers as one of the Navy’s first female F/A-18 Hornet pilots, to safely landing the […]
Governor Greg Abbott and the Governor’s Commission for Women today announced seven Texas women, recognized for outstanding achievement and for changing the course of history, have been selected for induction into the Texas Women’s Hall of Fame. “The Texas Women’s […]
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 plane vibrated violently side to side. Then it lunged to […]
Tammie Jo Shults and Darren Ellisor, the pilots who safely landed a Southwest Airlinesplane on April 17 after one of its engines failed, said it was teamwork and training that helped them get through the “life-changing” experience that left one passenger […]
The Southwest Airlines pilot hailed as a “hero” for safely landing Flight 1380after a deadly engine explosion last month said that as the chaos unfolded in the air, it felt like a flashback to her naval training. Captain Tammie Jo Shults and her co-pilot, Darren Ellisor, […]
Capt. Tammy Jo Shults, the pilot who landed a Southwest Airlines plane last month after one of its engines exploded and blew a hole in the cabin, has been widely hailed as a hero for her calm nerves and steady leadership […]
(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 actually, ‘Oh, here we go,'” Shults, 44, told ABC News recently. “Just […]
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 737 in for an emergency landing after the Southwest […]
Just hours after she guided Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 to safety, Captain Tammie Jo Shults shared three short words about landing with a lone engine, a shattered window and a cabin full of frightened passengers wearing oxygen masks. “God is good,” she […]
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 the U.S. Navy, said. “We have part of the aircraft […]