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Old 29th March 2002 | 05:23
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helmet fire
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Several years ago, Qantas (an Australian airline) was contracted to help train Air India pilots. As a result, several Indian pilots were rotated through Qantas cockpits on normal Qantas flights. . .. .QF1 from Sydney to London was going via New Dehli as usual, but instead if the typical broad Australian accent over the radio from QF1, there came the voice of an Indian pilot instead. Throughout the director, approach and tower exchanges, the Indian ATC were recieving their own accent back from QF1 and trying to decide if some Aussie git was trying to take the pi55 out of them. Finally, when QF1 checked in on ground frequency, the response in a heavy Indian accent was "QF1, you are very welcoming to New Dehli sir, and you had better be bl00dy Indian"!!. . <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="biggrin.gif" />
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