Originally Posted by
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It’s French after all. You’ll find more funny things in the manuals of la grande Airbus!
This is a little unfair. The Airbus manuals were *originally* incomprehensible because of the translation from French. A few years ago Airbus became aware that this was a problem, so essentially rewrote the whole set but from a limited vocabulary of about 2000 words on the assumption that most readers wouldn't be native English speakers.
This is why it sometimes seems like they're unnatural to read, because the very specific English word that is a direct translation doesn't exist in the set of allowed words, so they need to find a different way of saying it.