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By KYLE ARNOLD | The Dallas Morning News | Published: December 12, 2020 DALLAS (Tribune News Service) Retired Southwest Airlines pilot Tammie Jo Shults has taken her place next to some of the giants of human flight, including Buzz Aldrin, Charles Lindbergh and Howard Hughes, after being inducted Thursday into the International Air & Space Hall of Fame in San Diego. Shults, who was a female pioneer as a U.S. Navy pilot, is best known as the captain piloting Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 in April 2018 when a piece of fan blade broke off, tore apart the engine and broke out a window in the Boeing 737\u2032s cabin. The engine damage caused dangerous decompression aboard the plane and pulled a passenger, Jennifer Riordan, partially out of the window and caused her death. ....
Tammie Jo Shults honored among aviation greats two years after harrowing Southwest Airlines flight Shults, who retired from Southwest in August after a 26-year career, piloted a heavily damaged Boeing 737 to safety in April 2018 after an engine ripped apart and killed one passenger. Southwest Airlines Capt. Tammie Jo Shults in an interview with ABC s 20/20 set to air Friday night. (ABC/Heidi Gutman) (Heidi Gutman / ABC) Retired Southwest Airlines pilot Tammie Jo Shults has taken her place next to some of the giants of human flight, including Buzz Aldrin, Charles Lindbergh and Howard Hughes, after being inducted Thursday into the International Air & Space Hall of Fame in San Diego. ....