{"id":78963,"date":"2018-04-18T12:00:37","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T16:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=78963"},"modified":"2018-04-18T18:39:42","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T22:39:42","slug":"tammie-jo-shults-former-navy-fighter-pilot-lands-damaged-737","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=78963","title":{"rendered":"Tammie Jo Shults, former Navy fighter pilot, lands damaged 737"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fox News<\/a> reports that Tammie Jo Shults, one of the Navy’s first female fighter pilots, was forced to land her damaged Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 saving the lives of the 143 passengers and five crew on board. <\/p>\n

Jennifer Riordan, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, was identified as the woman who died. Riordan was the mother of two and a Wells Fargo bank executive.<\/p>\n

Witnesses told WCAU that a woman was “partially sucked out” of an airplane window and shrapnel from the exploded engine smashed it, but it remains unclear whether Riordan was that passenger.<\/p>\n

Seven others were injured.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a part of the aircraft missing, so we\u2019re going to need to slow down a bit,\u201d Shults told air traffic controllers from the cockpit, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n

Shults took the plane into a rapid descent as passengers employed oxygen masks and braced for impact. The veteran pilot managed to safely land the plane at Philadelphia International at 11:30 a.m. <\/p>\n

One passenger cited by The Kansas City Star, lauded Shults\u2019 \u201cnerves of steel.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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