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Tammie Jo Shults [1]
Shults with an F/A-18 Hornet of VAQ-34[2]
Womanpower in Naval Aviation
Naval Aviation News (1992)
Birth nameTammie Jo Bonnell
BornNew Mexico
Allegiance United States of America
Service / branch United States Navy
Years of service1985–1993
Rank Lieutenant Commander
AwardsNavy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal, National Defense Service Medal
Spouse(s)
Dean Shults
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(date missing)​
Children2
Aviation career
Famous flightsSouthwest Airlines Flight 1380

Tammie Jo Shults (born 1961 or 1962)[3] is an American airline captain and a former U.S. Navy F/A-18 naval aviator. She is known for being the first female F/A-18 aviator and for having successfully landed Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 Boeing 737-700 after suffering an uncontained engine failure on April 17, 2018.[4]

Her calm demeanor during the emergency brought comparisons on social media and press to Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger.[5]

Biography

Tammie Jo Shults (Bonnell) was born in New Mexico.[6]

Shults graduated from MidAmerica Nazarene University in 1983 and joined the Navy where she rose to the rank of Lieutenant Commander, becoming one of the first female fighter pilots.[5][3] Shults served in the VAQ-34 Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron in Point Mugu, California., as a flight instructor flying the F/A-18 Hornet and the EA-6B Prowler. She was also the first female pilot to fly an F/A-18 Hornet for the Navy.[7][8]

She left the full-time Navy in 1993 (remaining in the Reserves until 2001),[9] and joined Southwest as pilot.[6] She lives in Texas with her husband Dean who is also a pilot for the same airline.[8]

See also

  • Rosemary Bryant Mariner, the first female military aviator to achieve command of an operational air squadron, at VAQ-34, where Shults served

References

  1. ^ "Tammie Jo Shults, former Navy pilot, called hero of Southwest emergency landing". April 18, 2018. Retrieved April 18, 2018.
  2. ^ Seck, Hope Hodge (18 April 2018). "Navy Releases Service Record of Hero Captain Who Landed Southwest 1380". Military.com. Retrieved 2018-04-19.
  3. ^ a b "Southwest Airlines: Meet Tammie Jo Shults, the heroic ex-fighter pilot who safely landed stricken plane". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. April 18, 2018. Retrieved April 18, 2018.
  4. ^ Donnelly, Grace (April 18, 2018). "What to Know About the Pilot on Southwest Airlines Flight 1380". Fortune. Retrieved April 18, 2018.
  5. ^ a b Schmidt, Samantha (April 18, 2018), "'Nerves of steel': She calmly landed the Southwest flight, just as you'd expect of a former fighter pilot", The Washington Post, retrieved April 18, 2018
  6. ^ a b Calvert, Scott (April 18, 2018). "Southwest Captain, Former Navy Pilot, Praised for Calm Amid Catastrophe". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved April 18, 2018.
  7. ^ Londberg, Max (April 17, 2018). "Heroic Southwest pilot studied in Olathe, among 1st female fighter pilots in military". The Kansas City Star. Retrieved April 18, 2018.
  8. ^ a b "LISTEN: Southwest Pilot Coolly Plans One-Engine, Emergency Landing". NPR.org. Retrieved 2018-04-19.
  9. ^ Luis Martinez (April 18, 2018), Hero Southwest pilot one of Navy's first female fighter pilots, ABC News


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