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Friday, December 2, 2011

Language and air safety

From a news report yesterday:
A Chinese airline pledged on Wednesday to improve its crews' English skills after one of its flights took off from a Japanese airport without authorisation.

China Eastern Airlines did not say what caused the error, but pledged to "further improve the English communication skills of our flight crews to assure flight safety," suggesting it may have been a misunderstanding.

The latest incident comes after the privately-owned Chinese airline Juneyao said in August one of its pilots had refused to give up his landing slot to a passenger plane that issued a distress call to say it was running out of fuel.

Read more from NDTV.

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