# 11. Approach: "American Two Twenty....Eneey, meeny, miney, mo, how do you hear my radio?"
# 10. Approach: "The traffic at nine o'clock's gonna do a little Linda Ronstadt on you." Airliner: "Linda Ronstadt? What's that?" Approach: "Well, sir, they're gonna 'Blue Bayou'."
# 9. Airliner: "I can see the country club down below, looks like a lot of controllers out there!" Approach: "Yes, sir, there are, and they're caddying for DC-5 drivers like you."
# 8. Airliner: "Approach, what's our sequence?" Approach: "Calling for the sequence...I missed your callsign, but if I find out what it is, you're last."
# 7. UAL 525: "Approach, United five two five.... what's this aircraft doing at my altitude?" Approach: "What makes you think it's YOUR altitude, captain?"
# 6. Approach: "Delta 176....say speed." Delta 176: "Approach, we slowed it down to two-twenty." Approach: "Pick it back up to two-fifty. This ain't Atlanta and them ain't no grits on the ground."
# 5. Airliner: "Request runway 27 Right." Approach: "Unable" Airliner: "Do you know the wind at 6000 is 270 at 50?" Approach: "Yeah, I do. If we could jack the airport up to 5500, you could have that runway. Expect 14 Right."
# 4. Airliner: "The First Officer says he has you in sight." Approach: "Roger, the First Officer is cleared for a visual approach runway 27 Right....YOU continue on that 180 heading and decend to 3000."
# 3. Interphone: "Hey O'Hare.....you see the 7600 code flashing five northwest of Gary?" O'Hare: "Yeah, I do....you guys talkin' to him?"
(7600 is the code an aircraft signals to signify lost communications)
# 2. Airliner: "Approach, what's the tower?" Approach: "That's a big tall building with glass all around it, but that's not important right now."
The number one actual item heard from an O'Hare controller:
# 1.
"Air Force Four-Five, it appears your engine has...oh, disregard. I see you've already ejected.
