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One question: Why are they not speaking English? I heard from fatal command mistakes with pilots an Asian country and now everyone has to speak English. Is thi
by sek 15y ago
One question: Why are they not speaking English?
I heard from fatal command mistakes with pilots an Asian country and now everyone has to speak English. Is this again some stupid patriotism thing (i am German, i know the French attitudes), but i seriously thought to prevent command errors everyone has to speak the international aviation language.
- brazzy 15y agoYou seriously believe that command errors are less likely when two people communicate in a foreign language, compared to a shared native one?
- sek 15y agoThis sounds funny first, but i have read about this in a book i can't recall right now. Especially asian countries have a extreme passive and submissive language. The receiver is responsible to interpret the language. In this fatal example, the lower ranked pilot said something like "our altimeter was very fortunate in the past" and what he tried to communicate was "look at the altimeter, we are to low". He was so afraid to speak up to his tired captain that they died. Another change after that incident was to make a new flight team every time.
- minitrollster 15y agoI know this is a bit late, but I just wanted to mention that you most likely read that in Malcom Gladwell's Outliers. There's a whole chapter about aviation.
- mtts 15y agoIn this case, that would probably have made it worse. I doubt a panicked Frenchman would unfreeze just because he has to speak English to another Frenchman.
- lutorm 15y agoi seriously thought to prevent command errors everyone has to speak the international aviation language It's only international over radio. In the cockpit, you can speak whatever language you want.