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Reminds me of a "joke" that my Uncle told me once: An aircraft controller was sitting in a tower in Berlin-Tegel, and hears a request for landing by a Lufthans
by binarymax 12y ago
Reminds me of a "joke" that my Uncle told me once:
An aircraft controller was sitting in a tower in Berlin-Tegel, and hears a request for landing by a Lufthansa pilot speaking German. The controller asks the pilot to please repeat the request in English. The pilot asks, "Why must a German pilot of a German aircraft landing in a German airport make a request in English?". A British Airways pilot, listening in on the conversation, interrupts: "Because you lost the war".
- mcherm 12y agoWhereas the REAL answer to the question is "So that the British Airways pilot, listening in, can understand the request and has an opportunity to realize that it might cross his flight path." The use of English as a common worldwide air-traffic control language is widely considered a step forward in air safety.[citation needed] The safety comes from the consistency, not from any particular property of English.