On Tuesday, A Southwest Airlines jet blew an engine and got hit by a shrapnel which lead to a damaged window and broken fuselage. “We value you as our customer and hope you will allow us another opportunity to restore your confidence in Southwest”, the letter addressed to Siwatu stated.
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Shults calmly relayed details about the crisis to air traffic controllers, and passengers commended her handling of the situation.
“This is a calling that he has, and he did awesome”, she said. “My brother says she’s the best pilot he knows”.
The Texas firefighter spoke today about the Southwest flight from NY headed to Dallas when the pilot had to make an emergency landing in Philadelphia after the engine failed.
Despite other national media reports, Mackey says it was not a horrifically, bloody chaotic scene in the cabin.
For years, people such as myself have been arguing that gender discrimination doesn’t just hurt women: It hurts all of us, our economy, our efficiency, and, yes, even our safety.
Investigators say a fan blade snapped off as the plane cruised at 500 miles per hour high above Pennsylvania.
Jennifer Riordan was identified as the woman killed on the Southwest Airlines flight.
School officials have confirmed Riordan attended a Catholic elementary school in Burlington and graduated from Colchester High School. Marianne Riordan’s husband, Gerard, the older brother of Michael Riordan, said of his sister-in-law through tears, “It’s all a shock”. “One, because kids nowadays don’t identify women as being pilots, and having someone in the spotlight who’s a lady who does a great job just points out that it can happen and does happen and isn’t really that much of a surprise”. She loved her family tremendously.
“I think one reason is they have the wrong impression that women don’t have the temperment for it”, McCullough says. Debris from the engine blew out a window causing the woman, Jennifer Riordan, to nearly get sucked out of the plane. Pieces of the engine shattered a window and injured a passenger.
‘All we knew we could do was stay with her and get her home, ‘ she said. Sure, I’m happy to see women breaking glass ceilings and finding ways around concrete walls. I just can’t make sense of it.
As the plane quickly descended and passengers continued scrambling to pull the woman away from the window, other passengers stuffed clothes and jackets into the hole, said Martinez, who was sitting two rows away from the woman. “I need to help my family right now”.
In a statement to PEOPLE, Riordan’s family announced the founding of a memorial website, The Jennifer Riordan Memorial Trust, where people who are interested can support causes that were important to Riordan and help the family meet financial needs after the traumatic event.
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“Jennifer was the kind of person everyone would want to have as their mother, sister and wife”.
