Flight attendant helps land plane.

Thank heavens it wasn’t in the UK. Unite would be saying it wasn’t in the T&Cs of the cabin crew to be helping up front! :dev2:

I’m sure it’s been done before, when such movies were fashionable.
Remember Airport ’75 and Airport ’77?

Ho hum..another B grade Hollywood movie coming up

Irrespective of the quality of the newspaper if the report is based on facts, then it is worthy of praise.
Although the saying goes “lightning never strikes twice in the same place” it could have happened that the Captain also had the awful ‘fish’.
If both Captain and 1st Officer became simultaneously indisposed then we have a scenario from the series of Airplane movies and who knows O’Hare tower with a suitable pilot of the same series of aircraft in the tower could/may have talked the young woman down.
Happy ending though.

Nah, its probably the equivalent of the Daily Express/Mail because as per usual they’ve got their facts wrong…

The flight to Chicago was running late. Then the co-pilot got sick, forced out of the Boeing 767 cockpit by vicious stomach flulike symptoms…

The unidentified San Francisco-based flight attendant dutifully abandoned her beverage cart and put on a radio headset, replacing the ill first officer in the right seat of the jumbo jet’s flight deck to help the captain during the landing.

Since when has a Boeing 767 ever been considered a “jumbo jet”…:confused:

Fair play to the unidentified flight attendant though for coming forward and taking over. Whilst I am sure the Captain would have been able to continue the flight alone if necessary, she did a very honorable thing…and even better, none of the passengers onboard were any the wiser upon a safe landing in ORD!:)

I assume that the Chicago Tribune is their equivalent of The Sun!

“what we need is someone who knows how to fly a plane and who didn’t have fish for lunch”