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Chinese (and other) pilots unable to speak English pose danger for air travel (CNN)
CNN's Web page has a video segment from The Situation Room that describes the
serious problems with international pilots who cannot speak English well enough to communicate with air traffic control. They provide a recording of communications with Air China flight 981 in April in which the pilot has no idea what the controller is saying and the controller's frustration continues to build as his instructions are not followed. (This same recording has been circulating in aviation forums for months.) Air China says that it was the controller's fault for not speaking "standard" English, but the recording makes it clear that the pilots simply couldn't speak or understand at all. Several Chinese pilots and officials are interviewed; all are provided with subtitles (even though they are nominally speaking English) because their English is unintelligible. One pilot who supposedly passed an English test that will soon become mandatory is asked if he has ever had problems, and his response, in extremely broken English, is also unintelligible. And he's one of the pilots who passed? It's a rather alarming report. Controllers have known about the problem for years but nothing has ever been done. |
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