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One person died and several others were injured after an engine exploded on a Southwest Airlines flight bound for Dallas. There are some horrifying stories. One woman was sucked out of the broken window waist up. Several heroic men pulled her back into the plane.

“You hear the pop and she was sucked out from the waist up,” one passenger told NBC Nightly News. “There was blood on the windows…her arms were actually out of the airplane and her head was out of the airplane.”

Eric Zilbert, another passenger, said “several heroic gentlemen” pulled Riordan back into the plane and immediately performed CPR. Tranchin said she was covered in blood.

Peggy Phillips, a nurse, said she and another passenger performed about 20 minutes of CPR on the victim.

“It just wasn’t going to be enough,” Phillips said.

Ugh. My heart.

There were 143 passengers and five crew members on board at the time. If not for the calm, cool and collected actions of the pilot, who knows if they all would’ve survived.

Who’s that hero? Tammie Jo Shults. She’s a former Navy pilot. Actually, she’s “one of the first women to take the stick of an F/A-18 fighter jet.”

Tammie Jo Shults, pictured left, was the pilot of Southwest Flight 1380 when an engine failed mid-air. She is being hailed as a hero for safely landing the plane. Shults previously was a Navy fighter pilot who was one of the first women to fly F-18s: https://t.co/Dz6qCMtZZ8 pic.twitter.com/TxwyspJq5J

— Tom Cleary (@tomwcleary) April 17, 2018

This is the HERO who landed that #SWA plane today. Pilot Tammie Jo Shults was one of the first female fighter pilots in the @USNavy and a native of New Mexican. She really saved a lot of lives today. One woman died from injuries sustained when a window blew-out on the plane. pic.twitter.com/H6m3kBtG3b

— Kari Lake Fox 10 (@KariLakeFox10) April 17, 2018

A TRUE HERO!! Tammie Jo Shults, pilot of Southwest Flight 1380, former Navy fighter pilot, and one of the first women to fly F-18s. Safely lands plane after engine failure, and blown open window!! Amazing calmness!! 👍🏻👍🏻💯💯👏🏻👏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 #HERO pic.twitter.com/f2FEfQJvuu

— Tim Dennis (@TDennisSportTog) April 17, 2018

After graduating from MidAmerica Nazarene University in Kansas in 1983, Shults signed up with the Navy and became one of its first female fighter pilots, according to a Facebook post by the school’s alumni association.

“She landed her fighter plane on boats at 150 miles per hour and eventually became an instructor,” an article about her posted to a pilots’ forum reads, noting she was among the first to pilot a supersonic F/A-18.

Clearly, those skills came in handy. What a bada$$.

Shults, who lives in Fair Oaks Ranch, Texas, is married to pilot Dean Marcus Shults and has two children, Sydney and Marshall, according to Heavy.com.

On top of that, Schults sounds like a God-fearing woman, and that’s the EXACTLY kind of person I’d want in charge during that kind of situation.

Shults, a Christian, once said in an interview that sitting in the captain’s chair gave her “the opportunity to witness for Christ on almost every flight.”

“Tammie Jo Schults, the pilot came back to speak to each of us personally,” wrote another passenger, cited by the paper. “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.”

She rocks so hard. I want to hug her. What a hero!

h/t NY Post

Hannah Bleau

Hannah Bleau is a writer for Chicks On The Right. Read her full bio here.

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