Chinese (and other) pilots unable to speak English pose danger for air travel (CNN)

"Mortimer Schnerd, RN" mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com wrote in message
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Matthias van Henk wrote:
As more and more aviation business is operated from Asia and Chinese is
the most spoken language in the world all communication should be made
in Chinese then. :-)


If Won Wing Low had been the Father of Aviation, it could have been!



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Allegedly, a Pan Am 727 flight waiting for start clearance in Munich
overheard the following:
Lufthansa (in German): "Ground, what is our start clearance time?"
Ground (in English): "If you want an answer you must speak in English."
Lufthansa (in English): "I am a German, flying a German airplane, in
Germany. Why must I speak English?"
Unknown voice from another plane (in a beautiful British accent): "Because
you lost the bloody war."

"El Maximo" wrote in message
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"Mortimer Schnerd, RN" mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com wrote in message
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If Won Wing Low had been the Father of Aviation, it could have been!

Allegedly, a Pan Am 727 flight waiting for start clearance in Munich
overheard the following:
Lufthansa (in German): "Ground, what is our start clearance time?"
Ground (in English): "If you want an answer you must speak in English."
Lufthansa (in English): "I am a German, flying a German airplane, in
Germany. Why must I speak English?"
Unknown voice from another plane (in a beautiful British accent): "Because
you lost the bloody war."


I think we can all rest assured teach the world to speak understandable
English is not a long term problem. Everything will be going to Spanish in a
few years anyway.

I think we can all rest assured teach the world to speak understandable
English is not a long term problem. Everything will be going to Spanish in a
few years anyway.

No, it is going to be Esperanto, remember?

Maxwell writes:

I think we can all rest assured teach the world to speak understandable
English is not a long term problem. Everything will be going to Spanish in a
few years anyway.

Very little will be going to Spanish any time soon. While many people speak
Spanish in some parts of the world, the geographic distribution is not very
even, and the countries that speak the language primarily are not that
influential. And don't forget Brazil.

"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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Maxwell writes:

I think we can all rest assured teach the world to speak understandable
English is not a long term problem. Everything will be going to Spanish
in a
few years anyway.

Very little will be going to Spanish any time soon.

Out of touch with current events?

El Maximo writes:

Out of touch with current events?

No.

If you're travelling worldwide, the best language to know is English, followed
by French. Spanish would be in third place.

"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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El Maximo writes:

Out of touch with current events?

No.

If you're travelling worldwide, the best language to know is English,
followed
by French.

For the first time, you have made me laugh. Thanks for that.

"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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El Maximo writes:

Out of touch with current events?

No.

If you're travelling worldwide, the best language to know is English,
followed
by French. Spanish would be in third place.


But you haven't been further than La Défense in the past 2 years except in
Flight Simulator.
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JohnT

JohnT writes:

But you haven't been further than La Défense in the past 2 years except in
Flight Simulator.

I haven't been to Mount Everest, but I know it's a tough mountain to climb.
That's one of the consequences of education.

On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 19:43:47 +0200, Mxsmanic wrote:

the geographic distribution is not very
even, and the countries that speak the language primarily are not that
influential.

About 1/4 of the Dallas cable TV channels are in Spanish.

http://tinyurl.com/ytw6cx

Sábado Gigante ya'll!

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Dallas