Originally Posted by
FlightDetent
JS, you're wrong. Clearly "
Didn't".
I'm right....Clearly "DID".
Which makes sense with what he stated right after that. "I would assume that they are going to need to return" which is based on the fact that they DID declare an emergency.
And, yes...American controllers do know what MAYDAY means. So you are wrong there as well.
A good example though of how words can be misinterpreted even by native speakers.
But I do agree with you that there was some statements at one point by BA that were not particularly easy to understand in terms of what they were saying.