Nerves of Steel
How I Followed My Dreams, Earned My Wings, and Faced My Greatest Challenge
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- 12,99 €
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- 12,99 €
Description de l’éditeur
Nerves of Steel is the captivating true story of Tammie Jo Shults’s remarkable life—from growing up the daughter of a humble rancher, to breaking through gender barriers as one of the Navy’s first female F/A-18 Hornet pilots, to safely landing the severely crippled Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 and helping save the lives of 148 people.
Tammie Jo Shults has spent her entire life loving the skies. Though the odds were against her, she became one of the few female fighter pilots in the Navy. In 1994, after serving her country honorably for eight years, Tammie Jo left the Navy and joined Southwest Airlines in the early 1990’s.
On April 17, 2018, Tammie Jo was called to service once again. Twenty minutes into a routine domestic flight, Captain Shults was faced with the unthinkable—a catastrophic engine failure in the Boeing 737 caused an explosion that severed hydraulic and fuel lines, tearing away sections of the plane, puncturing a window, and taking a woman’s life. Captain Shults and her first officer, Darren Ellisor, struggled to stabilize the aircraft.
Drawing deeply from her well of experience, Tammie Jo was able to wrestle the severely damaged 737 safely to the ground. Not originally scheduled for that flight, there is no doubt God had prepared her and placed her right where she needed to be that day.
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Congratulations to Tammie Joe !
As a french newly retired airlines pilot, during my career, I came across the path of many females pilots and really enjoyed to work with. Usually, they were very bright efficient professional and modest beings. Nevertheless they had to overcome quantity of obstructions their male colleagues would eventually stupidly build up. Fortunately, things are moving (not fast enough) and bad behaviors one day will no longer be tolerated, will be banned or punished.