Flight attendant helps pilot land plane

[mfcorey1]

http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/06/flight-attendant-helps-pilot-land-plane.html

This is scary.

[Whoa_Nelly]

1. why is that scary?

She's a licensed commercial pilot and did a great job.

[mfcorey1]

2. Any thing that changes in a flight is scary to me because I have a fear of flying.

[Whoa_Nelly]

4. then flying is just scary

Do you ever fly?

[FLPanhandle]

5. Well, the announcement asking for any pilots on-board must have been unsettling.

Probably would have distracted me from my book that's for sure.

[Seneca]

8. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?

[FLPanhandle]

10. LOL.

How'd I not think of that?

[Canuckistanian]

14. It's not so far fetched

[Seneca]

21. Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit drinking!

[TommyO]

13. Checking to see if there are off-duty pilots doesn't require an announcement

It's simply a matter of checking to see if there were any employees of AA on the flight, and then checking their qualifications.

[Booster]

3. Bet everyone onboard was glad she was the flight attendant.

[rotund1]

6. Not scary at all. It only takes 1 person to fly/land the plane

but it's helpful to have another set of eyeballs up front and the FA with a pilot certificate was obviously able to run the radios and do housekeeping stuff - it was a bit of good luck but hardly the miracle some would call it.
:-)

[CurtEastPoint]

7. 'Tower to Nancy. Tower to Nancy!" "I can't! I can't fly this airplane alone!"

[Tesha]

9. Good thing she didn't have the fish!

[TommyO]

11. Why is it scary? A single pilot is more than capable of landing a 767

on their own.

[lumberjack_jeff]

12. I saw it. It looked bad, but it was only the autopilot's reinflation tube. n/t

[backscatter712]

15. That's why planes have two pilots.

From the story, the captain of the plane was in control the whole time, and probably could have landed the plane completely by himself, but having a second set of hands and eyes is always helpful, and since the flight attendant happened to be a licensed pilot, her assistance was welcomed.

[TexasObserver]

16. Surely, you can't be serious!

[jimshoes]

18. Stop calling me Shirley

:) Roger

[TexasObserver]

20. It never gets old!

Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?

For those of us who first knew Peter Graves as Jim, the father figure in FURY, that was a hoot. Leslie Nielson. Robert Stack. We had grown up watching these three guys all play serious roles. Barbara Billingsley from Beaver. It was so much fun, then and now.

[Edweird]

17. One of my GF's is a flight attendant. Apparently they 'fill in' quite regularly.

Maybe this is exclusive to the airline she works, but she sits in for one of the pilots if they have to got to the bathroom or whatever.

[MineralMan]

19. The flight attendant had a commercial pilot's license.

I imagine she did a good job in the second seat. I guess I don't see the problem here, or the reason for the humor. They needed a pilot, because the First Pilot was ill. The flight attendant had a commercial pilot's license. Problem solved.