...or releasing the hounds, or turning up the smog machines, or hammering it.......
Very appropriate in african airspace for 2 reasons, firstly you get out of there faster!, secondly you end up having to do less 'own co-ordination' on 126.9
From
Dictionary.com:
tr.v. trashed, trash·ing, trash·es
Slang.
To throw away; discard: trashed the broken toaster.
To wreck or destroy by or as if by vandalism; reduce to trash or ruins.
To beat up; assault.
To subject to scathing criticism or abuse; attack verbally: “The... professor trashes conservative... proposals as well as liberal nostrums” (Michael Marien).
To remove twigs or branches from.
To cut off the outer leaves of (growing sugar cane).
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[Probably of Scandinavian origin; akin to Norwegian dialectal trask.]
and
n. pl. don·keys
The domesticated ass (Equus asinus).
Slang. An obstinate person.
Slang. A stupid person.
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[Perhaps from the name Duncan, or of imitative origin.]
......so possibly the crew wished to discard a domesticated ass in african airspace?
Somehow I don't think it would have survived long in the desert
