The hero captain of Southwest 1380 insists she was just doing her job after safely performing an emergency landing amid the crisis unfolding on board. Women aviators were excluded from combat missions until the month after Mrs Shults got off active duty in March 1993, but Mr Flanders said Mrs Shults flew during Operation Desert Storm trainings as an aggressor enemy pilot. Friends at Mrs Shults' church in Boerne, Texas, about 30 miles northwest of San Antonio, said they were not surprised after listening to the recording and reading media reports about her actions. Mrs Shults was featured in Maloney's book Military Fly Moms along with the stories and photos of 69 other women US military veterans. Mrs Shults' brother-in-law, Gary Shults, said her husband also is a Southwest pilot and told him she made the emergency landing.

Source: Daily Mail April 19, 2018 09:17 UTC