Originally Posted by
morismarina
Wow.. Ref that 777LHR do you have a link, I'd like to look it up thanks.
Here's a reference from a post on Quora:
Captain Peter Burkill of British Airways 38 explains his radio call, “Speedbird, Speedbird, 95, 95,” in his book, Thirty Seconds to Impact. He said “Speedbird” twice because he was trying to remember the flight number. Even so, he got it wrong—BA 95 was the next flight he was scheduled to operate. He didn’t realize his mistake until he heard the CVR recording during the investigation. But his error was inconsequential, as there was no active “Speedbird 95” at the time and it was obvious which aircraft had crashed.
https://www.quora.com/When-British-A...fore-the-crash