Originally Posted by
Rainboe
Aeroflot often uses translators on the flight deck, or they used to.
You don't get any Aeroflot 767 crew who are not able to handle English. This fleet spends half its time in English-speaking airspace. And huge numbers of Russians are now educated in English.
And I also doubt anyone here would like to be in the crew's shoes when they get back to Moscow. Don't think everyone in authority in Russia laughs at drinking.
But in the USSR they just jump in .....
The USSR was wound up years ago.
I guess the facts and motives of this story can be as reliable as
our media's reporting and implying that the Russians were the
aggressors in Georgia.
Actually the BBC have been quite accurate in this. More than can be said for George Bush's or David Cameron's understanding of the situation. I think the Russians in South Ossetia were pretty glad to have Putin around when they were attacked. More than our leaders would probably do to protect us.