Sept 24, 2020 By Dan Namowitz You’ve been in cruise for 30 minutes when there’s a thump and a roar, and a pitch and a roll. For the next 17 minutes, you will use everything you ever learned about flying […]
It’s not every day you get to visit with a pioneer for women in aviation, an author, public speaker, firefighter, F-18 fighter pilot, and Airline pilot. But I did when I interviewed Captain Tammie Jo Schults for this program. After […]
Tammie Jo Shults was flying a Southwest 737 in 2018 when an engine came apart. Decades of training helped her land, and now she shares her story.
LISTEN NOW TODAY ON THE PODCAST, Captain Tammie Jo Shults, author of Nerves of Steel, is a Southwest Airlines captain and former naval aviator who received nationwide acclaim when she and her crew successfully landed a passenger-filled Boeing 737 that suffered […]
AUG 22, 2020 By James Albert She was self-made. She’d put herself by way of faculty, flight college, and all her multi-engine, instrument, coach, and industrial scores by working a great deal of jobs. She was assured she would have […]
AUG 18, 2020 By Amie I had the privilege of sitting down with author and pilot Tammie Jo Shults to talk about her career in the Navy as one of the first female F-18 pilots. She is also the heroic […]
AUG 18, 2020 By Amie National Aviation Day on August 19th celebrates the achievements and accomplishments in all areas of aviation. However, let’s use this opportunity to honor an underrepresented subset of the industry: women in military aviation. The world of […]
FEB 4, 2020 BY CAROL BEST MNU welcomed Alumnus Capt. Tammie Jo Shults for several events Feb. 3 and 4, 2020. Capt. Shults, who was thrust into the public spotlight in April 2018 when she safely landed Southwest Airlines flight […]
BY CHANNALY PHILIPP 1 CommentsJanuary 21, 2020 Updated: January 21, 2020 On April 17, 2018, Capt. Tammie Jo Shults headed to LaGuardia Airport in New York to pilot Southwest Airlines Flight 1380, bound for Dallas. That flight, as it turned out, wouldn’t be […]
When disaster occurred at 32,000 feet, a veteran airline pilot knew exactly what to do. By Diane Tedeschi AIR & SPACE MAGAZINE | SUBSCRIBE DECEMBER 2019 On April 17, 2018, Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 experienced an uncontained engine failure that […]