I'm very sorry to hear the Southwest family lost a passenger today. These are never planned, expected, or "trained for" events (the loss of a passenger). Thoughts and prayers to the passengers and Southwest family.

Tacky.



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Sorry if this has been covered already, but I’m wondering about the equipment; was this a new MAX 8 by chance? Just curious.

Well done to the crew. As others have said, I would hope to perform that well.

Wasn’t a 73Max. Here the incident link on AvHerald. Also the full FAA registration. A/C was a 737-700.
17 years old.

http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=772SW

https://avherald.com/h?article=4b7725fb&opt=0

Yeah, since someone posted something snarky that I won't dignify, the actual situation is that she was one of the first female Navy fighter pilots, and the first female Navy F/A-18 pilot.

And whatever her gender and background, she did the job cooly and professionally when stuff got Very Bad. Sullenberger said something to the effect of "Forty-two years of flying, and my entire career is going to be judged on 208 seconds." And when you come through the other end of a Very Bad Day with enough presence of mind to do all the little things right (like Sullenberger taking the log book with him as the aircraft was sinking), you deserve extra credit. Captain Shults, after doing everything she was supposed to do, then spent her time speaking individually with all of her passengers. That's something that they are going to remember for the rest of their lives, and it's going to start them on the rest of their life journey with her as the favorable face of Southwest Airlines.

There were female instructor fighter pilots before there were female combat fighter pilots IIRC.

Best wishes to the SWA family. And God bless that poor woman’s family and friends. We’ve had a very good run in 121 ops for a while, let’s hope this is just a blip.

And yes, the crew did a fantastic job.


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Terrible to have lost a PAX indeed as well as ending the fatality free streak since 2009.

Which PAX passed away though? Was it the person that suffered a heart attack or the person sitting next to the broken window?

No one got sucked out I presume...

The lady next to the window. She was sucked partially out. There are conflicting reports that she either died from head trauma or cardiac arrest. (Or, likely, some terrible combination)