Flight attendant helps sick pilot land plane at O'Hare

We are very happy to the dafe landing at ORD by
the flight attendant.

Now, just how many emergency landings have taken
place over our kids heads at that altitude of 750 Feet - AGL ?
Mr. Babbitt ???

Who said the flight attendant made the landing? Or that it was "an emergency landing"? Obviously, neither is true. If the F/A did what a first officer typically does when the captain is flying, she (or he) set the flaps when told to by the captain; put the gear down ditto; and handled all radio communications with approach, the tower, and ground control. Tasks, in fact, that any 20-hour student pilot could perform. Get a grip, Gene...

Oh, and FlightAware seems unable to write an accurate headline. The F/A didn't "help a sick pilot land," she/he helped a captain who was just fine, substituting for a sick first officer.

Blame the Chicago Sun-Times for "not being able to write an accurate headline", not FlightAware, stepwilk, since that was the source for the headline in the first place.

Well, however it work, somebody should have edited it. You?

Every pilot's dream, to assist in getting the plane back on the ground safely when the airline pilot gets sick. . .

If I felt that I was qualified to be a Chicago Sun-Times Editor, stepwilk, I would be there, at the paper, in Chicago, editing stories and headlines before they ever made it out the door onto papers, on-line web portals, and before a site like FlightAware picks the story up.

But I don't feel that I am qualified, and - frankly - neither are you. So why don't you let it go, relax, go for a walk, get outside, find a hobby, and ease up on the community supported forums of FlightAware.

Actually, having been the editor of a national magazine (Car and Driver) and executive editor of another (Flying), I am qualified...

Fine, stepwilk, whatever. Then you should understand how a site like this works. I assumed that you were not qualified based upon the lack of proper spelling or grammar in your previous post. Again, take your complaint about the headline to the Chicago Sun-Times Editor, not me. You get what you pay for.
More importantly, though, is that it seems you are so very keen on criticizing rather than contributing. I have voted on many stories, and contributed well over 50 stories to FlightAware. Where are your contributions? Why am I wasting my time with someone who finds joy in criticisms rather than the sense of community that FlightAware is about?

Stepwilk, you SAY you wrote for "flying" mag and "car and driver"...what the hell does that have to do with commenting on a commercial airliner who has a qualified pilot and assistant...at 700' agl...
I agree with are three...YOU NEED A LIFE....

Well, well, well. Step all over each others egos. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, beam all of us up - intelligent life has departed the runway.

Step wrote: "Well, however it work, somebody should have edited it. You? ".

Step, I don't know how it "work", but somethin don't look right with yo post.
hehehe....seriously find a more serious hill to die on here man!

Interesting...I just took a look at how to add one of these news items, and it turns out that the poster writes the title, not the source you're posting. So there's no need to "blame the chicago Sun-Times," as AreThree put it, I blame AreThree for foolishly accepting the Sun-Times' inaccurate headline, just as I originally said.

Oooh! Oooh! Are we handing out blame now? Can I assign some, too? Naw. I know better than to argue with idiots over the Internet. I am happy to accept headlines written by people whose job it is to write headlines. stepwilk has been a registered member of FlightAware since May 11, 2009 and it just took him/her a little over a year to figure out how to squawk a news item. Some people are just a little slow, I guess. Which is disconcerting since he/she claims to be a commercial pilot! As to my foolishness: who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows him?

Correction: I have submitted 268 stories (well over 50 as I had said before) to FlightAware and this is the first time anyone has had an issue with any of them. Many have been quite well liked.
I believe that it is people contributing squawks to FlightAware that makes it such an interesting, fun, and educational community.
I do edit headlines if they are too lengthy or are confusing, but this one told an interesting story and grabbed your attention. I didn't think that it needed any help.