CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY APRIL 20, 2018
THERE WAS A TIME AND NOT THAT LONG AGO WHEN SOME PEOPLE FEARED WOMEN PILOTS. SOME MEN, ESPECIALLY, THOUGHT THEY SHOULD BE FLIGHT ATTENDANTS AND NOTHING MORE.
IF THERE ARE STILL PEOPLE WHO FEEL THAT WAY, THEIR FEARS SHOULD HAVE ENDED TUESDAY WHEN SOUTHWEST CAPTAIN TAMMIE JO SHULTS LANDED A SEVERLY DAMAGED PLANE AFTER ONE OF THE ENGINES BLEW UP AND SUCKED ONE PASSENGER OUT A WINDOW. THAT PASSNGER DIED OF HER INJURIES.
PASSENGERS SAID SHULTS HAD “NERVES OF STEEL.”
WHAT THE MEDIA DON’T KNOW – OR WON’T REPORT – IS THAT SHULTS IS A SERIOUS CHRISTIAN, WHO IS PART OF A BIBLE STUDY IN TEXAS ATTENDED BY ANOTHER FEMALE PILOT FRIEND OF MINE. EXPECT TO HEAR POSITIVE REFERENCES TO JESUS ON THE COCKPIT RECORDING, MY FRIEND TOLD ME.
SHULTS IS A WIFE AND MOTHER OF TWO. IN THE EARLY 1990S SHE WAS A NAVY INSTRUCTOR PILOT ON VARIOUS TYPES OF AIRCRAFT. EARLY IN HER CAREER SHE WAS TURNED DOWN BY ONE MILITARY BRANCH BECAUSE “GIRLS DON’T FLY PLANES.” THE NAVY GAVE HER A CHANCE AND 148 “SOULS,” AS SHULTS DESCRIBED THEM TO AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL, ARE GLAD THEY DID. I’M CAL THOMAS IN WASHINGTON.
