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Old 29th Jan 2006, 09:07
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MungoP
 
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Tennerife.... As far as I remember the 2 aircraft were not communicating directly with each other...the controller had a very difficult to understand accent ... this was one of the accidents I was referring to above regarding the use of 'poor' English.
The very near-miss that I suffered was during a period when I had already queried an instruction to another aircraft ( I speak a little Spanish )... I was assured in English that 'all is OK'.... another rapid instruction to the other aircraft in Spanish was beyond my level and I just had to believe 'all is OK'... then we came out of the cloud...
Give it up... there is a major safety risk in the use of two languages... we may as well be on different frequencies.
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