Good Deeds Thread-Happy News Only, Please!

[Charon]

oh wow i have not had time for news. what a hero the fifteen yr old student is. And, he was shot five times. May the Lord richly bless him for putting his life on the line to save others. What a glorious child he is.

[Charon]

   

   

   

[willie33]

[Charon]

nice, Ms Willie. Finding good deeds is so hard now. Well done.

[Linville]

Heroic Female Pilot: Flying Planes Gives Me The Opportunity 'To Witness For Christ On Almost Every Flight'

Hank BerrienApril 17, 2018

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When the women of America or around the world want to look for a role model, they might want to start with Tammie Jo Shults, 56, the pilot who flew Southwest Flight 1380 to safety on Tuesday after part of its left engine ripped off, and a religious Christian who once said that piloting planes gave her the opportunity “to witness for Christ on almost every flight.”

The flight was supposed to fly from La Guardia Airport in New York City to Dallas Love airport, and because of the emergency situation had to land in Philadelphia. Shults was amazingly calm during the crisis, as audio below can testify. Meanwhile many passengers truly felt that they might die after they heard a huge boom and a window of the plane blew out, and they posted their fears on social media.

NBC News reported, “National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Robert Sumwalt said multiple audible alarms went off in the cockpit around 20 minutes after takeoff as the plane passed through an area at around 32,500 feet of altitude, and the crew reported an engine fire and said they were initiating an emergency descent.”

One woman out of the 143 passengers on board died on the flight: Jennifer Riordan, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, according to KOAT-TV. One woman was partially sucked out of the window, and some people pulled her back in; it is unclear whether it was Riordan.

One passenger described the crisis on Instagram: “Our engine that blew out at 38000 ft. A window blew out, a man saved us all as he jumped to cover the window. … The pilot, Tammy Jo was so amazing! She landed us safely in Philly.”

Kristopher Johnson, a passenger on the flight, told CNN:

We were leaving LaGuardia heading to Dallas. We were west of Philadelphia probably about 30,000 feet, and all of a sudden we just heard this loud bang, rattling and then it felt like one of the engines went out. The oxygen masks dropped and flight attendants did a good job. The pilot came on and said we’re diverting to Philadelphia and, you know, there was a serious medical injury. I don’t know much about that, but I was sitting in the front. With a couple passengers. We just got the mask on and as soon as we landed, we were thankful. The pilots did a great job, the crew did a great job. They got us down to Philly, and that’s when I took the photo of the engine, and it appeared that it just shredded the left side engine completely. So we were coming down — we dropped probably from 30,000 feet to 25,000 feet, and then the pilot kind of regained control and brought it down safely to Philadelphia. So we got off the plane and onto buses and we’re trying to head over to the tarmac in Philly. … It was pretty scary, but the pilots did a great job.”

After the flight, one passenger, Diana McBride Self, noted that Shults greeted each passenger after they landed. Self wrote: “Tammie Jo Schults, the pilot came back to speak to each of us personally. This is a true American Hero. A huge thank you for her knowledge, guidance and bravery in a traumatic situation. God bless her and all the crew.”

So just who is Tammie Jo Shults?

Rejected at aviation career day at her high school because she was a girl, Shults enrolled at Mid America Nazarene University in veterinary medicine, but then . . . “In my junior year I went to an Air Force winging with a friend whose brother was getting his wings. And, lo, there was a girl in his class,” Shults recalls. Applying for the Air Force after she graduated, she was denied a test, but the Navy grabbed her, and she became one of their first female fighter and the first woman to fly F-18s.

Shults wasn’t permitted to fly in combat, but she became an “aggressor pilot” and an instructor. She joined Southwest Airlines in 1993.

As Heavy reports:

A Navy magazine story published in 1993 noted Shults was a member of the Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron (VAQ) 34. The story says that she had flown A-7 and F/A-18 aircraft. She said, “In AOCS (Aviation Officer Candidate School), if you’re a woman (or different in any way), you’re a high profile; you’re under more scrutiny.” She said that chances for women to gain knowledge in the aviation community were limited. “It would be nice if they would take away the ceilings (women) have over our heads,” she said. “In VAQ-34, gender doesn’t matter, there’s no advantage or disadvantage. Which proves my point – if there’s a good mix of gender, it ceases to be an issue.”

Shults’ husband, Dean, is also a licensed pilot, Medical Class 1. They have two children.

To hear the amazing calm of this woman during a genuine crisis, listen below:

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Sadly one passenger died .

But this could have been so much worse . Everyone on board thought they were going to die.

The crew is to be commended for a job well done.

You can easily tell they took their training seriously.

[Charon]

i suspected airlines did not hire women much as i never witnessed an airline pilot whom was female.

i don't fly much now.

But, she is a true hero. Thank u so much linville.

She is like the earliest pilots whom were calm no matter what happens.

Good deed, indeed.

[Linville]

Charon check this additional out
She is s hero
The people said she had nerves of steel
And the whole crew were very professional

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Who is Tammie Jo Shults? Pilot of Southwest flight called a 'hero' with 'nerves of steel'
April 18, 2018
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Southwest plane makes emergency landing in Philadelphia; engine trouble cited


https://www.yahoo.com/news/angels-traini...ector.html



By Andrew Hay
(Reuters) - The pilot who safely landed a stricken Southwest Airlines flight on Tuesday got her first flying experience in the U.S. Navy, touching down F-18 fighter jets at 150 miles per hour on aircraft carriers.
Tammie Jo Shults, 56, may have drawn on her Navy skills when one of the two engines on her Boeing 737-700 blew and broke apart at 32,000 feet on Tuesday, forcing her to implement a rapid descent towards Philadelphia International Airport.
The explosion killed one passenger and nearly sucked another out of a shattered window.
One of the first female fighter pilots in the U.S. Navy, Shults calmly told air traffic control that part of her plane was missing, and she would need ambulances on the runway.
"So we have a part of the aircraft missing so we're going to need to slow down a bit," Shults told a controller.
Many of the 144 passengers sang her praise on social media after Shults thanked them for their bravery as they left the plane.
"The pilot Tammy Jo was so amazing! She landed us safely in Philly," said Amanda Bourman on Instagram.
Passenger Alfred Tumlinson said of Shults, according to CBS, "She has nerves of steel. That lady, I applaud her. I'm going to send her a Christmas card — I'm going to tell you that — with a gift certificate for getting me on the ground. She was awesome." He added, "The lady, the crew, everything, everybody was immaculate. They were so professional in what they did to get us on the ground."
Diana McBride Self took to Facebook to thank Shults. "Her grace and knowledge under pressure were remarkable," she wrote. "She came through the plane personally to check on us after she landed our crippled airplane. ... We were truly all in amazing hands."
Passengers identified Shults as the pilot. Southwest Airlines declined to name the crew of flight 1380 and Shults was not immediately available for comment.
Authorities said the crew did what they were trained to do.
"They're in the simulator and practice emergency descents..and losing an engine... They did the job that professional airline pilots are trained to do," National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Robert Sumwalt told reporters.
"GOD SENT HIS ANGELS"
Shults might never have become a pilot if she had not been so determined to fly from a young age.
She is quoted on fighter plane blog F-16.net saying she tried to attend an aviation career day at high school but was told they did not accept girls.
A native of New Mexico, she never lost the urge to fly and, after studying medicine in Kansas, applied to the Air Force. It would not let her take the test to become a pilot, but the U.S. Navy did.
She was one of the first female F-18 pilots and became an instructor before she left the Navy in 1993 and joined Southwest, according to the blog.
A Christian, who is married to a fellow pilot and has two children, Shults said that sitting in the captain's chair gave her "the opportunity to witness for Christ on almost every flight."
Bourman was among passengers who said they had been saved by divine intervention.
"God sent his angels to watch over us," she said.
(Reporting By Andrew Hay in Taos, New Mexico; additional reporting by Bill Tarrant in Los Angeles; Editing by Neil Fullick)

[Charon]

i read that this morning. She is awesome.

[Woodhouse]

I knew right after reading about this a week ago that the pilots were definitely doing their job.

The article I read said the pilots crash landed...What? The pilots landed a crippled plane on the runway. An emergency landing yes, but they did not crash the plane. Defiantly great karma going their way.

[reilli]

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