Originally Posted by
asdf1234
I think it is important to understand the use of the English language by people in India and Pakistan to fully understand the phrase "Confirm you are carrying out belly landing".
Whilst at first sight/hearing this may lead the listener to believe that the controller is asking about future intent, it is more likely that the controller is asking about a historic event.
A native english speaker would say "Confirm you carried out..." whereas in the subcontinent this is often phrased as "confirm you are carrying out" with both phrases referring to the past event.
Fair point - but it's not even clear to me, from the publicly available audio, that he's saying "carrying out" . And in any case, we don't know how the Approach controller knew whatever it was he knew.