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…
Tammie Jo Shults and Darren Ellisor, the pilots who safely landed a Southwest Airlines plane on April 17 after one of its engines failed, said it was teamwork and training that…
The Southwest Airlines pilot hailed as a “hero” for safely landing Flight 1380 after a deadly engine explosion last month said that as the chaos unfolded in the air, it felt like a flashback to…
(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…
This past Tuesday, on Harvey Milk Day, we had the pleasure of speaking to Stuart Milk, the co-founder of the Harvey Milk Foundation. Like his uncle, Stuart has dedicated his life to…
About 20 minutes after Southwest Flight 1380 took off from New York's LaGuardia Airport on April 17, one of the plane's engines exploded, sending debris through a passenger window and causing…
A provision that would enable a study of single-pilot operation of cargo aircraft, strongly opposed by pilot groups, remains on the table as part of legislation to reauthorize the Federal…
It’s too late to get Frank Frazetta’s ‘Death Dealer 6’ painting, which went for nearly $1.8 million, but there’s still plenty to bid on (or just gawk at). Heritage Auctions…
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…
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…
