LISTEN: Southwest Pilot Coolly Plans One-Engine, Emergency Landing
"We have a part of the aircraft missing, so we're going to need to slow down a bit," the pilot told air traffic controllers as she prepared to land with nearly 150 people onboard.
Southwest pilot Tammie Jo Shults is being praised for her cool demeanor after her plane suffered a blown engine — killing one passenger — and she was forced to make a one-engine, emergency landing in Philadelphia with nearly 150 people onboard Tuesday.
In the midst of calamity, passengers on Flight 1380 used their phones to send texts to loved ones and share news of their desperate state.
"Something is wrong with our plane! It appears we are going down!" passenger Marty Martinez wrote in the caption of a livestream video, showing himself breathing through a mask.
In the cockpit of the Boeing 737 en route from New York
