Tammie Jo Shults, a former fighter pilot with the U.S. Navy, was flying the plane that had 149 people onboard, according to The Washington Post, when one of the engines exploded about 20 minutes ...

The Southwest pilot who successfully landed Flight 1380 in Philadelphia was among the first female fighter pilots in the Navy. Tammie Jo Shults attended school at MidAmerica Nazarene in Olathe.

Shults is from New Mexico, according to a personnel file from the Navy, and was a 1983 graduate of MidAmerica Nazarene University in Olathe, Kansas, where she earned degrees in biology and ...

The Southwest pilot who safely landed Flight 1380 after a deadly engine explosion said she thought immediately of her naval training ...

Tammie Jo Shults—who gained worldwide acclaim as the hero Southwest pilot who landed a severely damaged plane—overcame stereotypes to fly. Sign Up for Our Ideas Newsletter POV.

T he pilots who landed the Southwest Airlines flight after an engine blew out, leading to the death of one passenger, spoke out for the first time.. Pilots Tammie Jo Shults, who has been hailed as ...

Foster said that not only was Shults among the first female fighter pilots, she was the first woman to fly an F/A-18 Hornet for the Navy. “She said she wasn’t going to let anyone tell her she ...

Shults, 56, is a 1983 graduate of MidAmerica Nazarene University in Olathe, Kansas, receiving her degree in biology and agribusiness, said Carol Best, a spokeswoman for the university.

Shults is 56. Sullenberger was 57 when US Airways Flight 1549 splashed down between New York City and New Jersey after losing power in both engines.