Cool Hand Tammie Jo
Southwest’s flight 1380 was Going to Dallas from LaGuardia. A 737-300 with 146 people abroad had cleared NY airspace and was westbound over Eastern Pennsylvania when the port engine flew apart sending shrapnel into the plane’s body and taking out a window and part of the window frame. One female passenger was partially sucked out the window and eventually pulled back inside by the passengers.
The wind was horrendous, the cabin depressurized, and the facemasks dropped. Most of the passengers thought it was their end. Over the intercom came a soft, steady female voice, the pilot saying: “ladies and gentlemen we have a problem as we have lost one of our engines and are going to need to slow down and fly lower. Please keep your seat belts buckled for the rest of the trip.” The pilot was Tammie Jo Shults who had been a SW Pilot for over a decade, but had trained before that as one of the first female fighter pilots for the Navy. She coolly alerted air traffic control and turned the plane around taking it back towards Philadelphia. Tammie calmly and professionally warned Philli flight control of their situation and dropped the plane to 3000 feet as she zeroed in on the Philli airport. She also asked Philli to have emergency medical ready as they had an injured passenger. The air traffic controller then asks her whether her plane is on fire, to which Shults calmly replies: “No, it’s not on fire, but part of it’s missing. They said there’s a hole, and — uh — someone went out.” While there were lots of wet pants in the passenger compartment, Tammie took them in smoothly and quietly and taxied right over to the emergency vehicles so everyone could get off quickly. The Navy confirmed that she was among the first female pilots to make the transition to tactical aircraft after completing flight training in Pensacola, Florida. Shults said in a joint statement with First Officer Darren Ellisor Wednesday that “as Captain and First Officer of the Crew of five who worked to serve our Customers aboard Flight 1380 yesterday, we all feel we were simply doing our jobs.” How is that for a story on international women’s day?
That’s confidence
Confidence: Is what you have before you fully understand a situation.
Government officials can sometimes be removed from office with “a vote of no confidence.”
Which is eerily similar to how many entered into office with “a vote of no competence.”
Hoarding toilet paper is a good sign.
It shows people’s confidence that there will be food.
Once, all villagers decided to pray for rain, on the day of prayer all the People gathered but only one boy came with an umbrella.
March 9th Birthdays
1969 – Kimberly Guilfoyle, 1983 – Maitte Perroni, 1996 – Ciera Ramierez, 1987 – Brittany Snow
1972 – Bobby Fisher, 1824 – Leland Stanford, 1980 – Matt Barnes, 1963 – David Pogue