> To be fair you're not being fair, though. A common language was chosen for aviation, and nothing in that article suggests that a different language choice wo

> To be fair you're not being fair, though. A common language was chosen for aviation, and nothing in that article suggests that a different language choice would have been better. In this case you had Dutch speakers communicating with Spanish speakers. English does offer a blend between romance and germanic languages (which of course could lead to "false friends", but no language will be perfect)