Nerves of Steel
How I Followed My Dreams, Earned My Wings, and Faced My Greatest Challenge
Captain Tammie Jo Shults
- 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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