“It was really like any other flying day,” Shults, 56, said in an interview with ABC News’s “20/20” that will air Friday. Shults wasn’t even supposed to be flying the plane. Her husband, Dean, also a Southwest pilot, had been scheduled to be Flight 1380’s captain, but the two had swapped shifts so she could attend their son’s track meet. [‘Nerves of steel’: She calmly landed the Southwest flight, just as you’d expect of a former fighter pilot]The cockpit was so loud that she and Ellisor had to use hand signals to communicate. [Southwest passenger who died following explosion was sucked halfway outside the plane]After they landed, Shults walked back to check on the passengers and the flight attendants.

Source: Washington Post May 11, 2018 03:33 UTC