Flight 1380 Attempts a Dangerous Maneuver to Land in One Piece 🛬 Air Disasters | Smithsonian Channel

Plane engine: let’s explode Navy pilot: you messed with the wrong pilot

A lot of sports heroes and public figures get attention, but these 2 who brought in this plane are true heroes. great job of keeping their cool.

There's so much more to this. The whole thing was caused by an engine fan blade breaking off. That broken window at 3:23? The passenger sitting next to it got partially sucked out and later died of her injuries. After she got pulled back in, she was lying down on the row of seats, so the other people in that row needed to sit in the flight attendants' jump seats for landing (the flight was full). That in turn meant the flight attendants had to sit on the floor and be held down by passengers. The incident caused the cabin to depressurize, so the pilots needed to deploy the cabin oxygen masks and put on their own until they were below 10,000 feet.

Captain Tammie Jo Shults remains a hero in my eyes forever. Never forget what she and her team did to a crippled aircraft to safely land it.

I’ve actually talked with about a month after this happened when she was the captain off one of my flights. And she described the plane as nearly uncontrollable at first but later it felt more like the plane was wanted to actually fly. Very nice lady

it just amazing how pilots control themselves during moments like this

It’s a good sign when one of the pilots is telling the story of the incident on the video, we instantly know that there were survivors

Former Navy and Airforce pilots in the cockpit. I'd trust their abilities any day of the week.

I've flown Southwest. Gotta give the crew props, they were very professional.

Never get on a plane with Smithsonian channel camera crew.

This video give NO justice to the complete and incredible situation those pilots and crew faced that day and the heroic actions they took to save all on board. Should make an actual documentary on Southwest Flight 1380!

Captain Tammie Jo Shults is the kind of people we need flying

How about some credit for the First Officer. He's the one who grabbed the controls and fought the plane back level. Props to both working as a crew in an emergency and not as individuals.

RIP Jennifer Riordan

the CGI of this animation is awesome

What’s scary is that every crash starts like a normal flight that you could be on

First thought when smoke started filling the cabin was ”MASKS ON!”

With ellisors great reactions initially and shults’ impressive landing, this was the perfect combination of teamwork, precision, and staying calm in a bad situation

That captain is a total badass! Listen to the flight recording from this flight. Calm, cool and collected. Best of the best!

The Captain and 1st Officer,were completely focussed on what they were doing,That was a perfect landing considering the circumstances.