English for dummies
One more time a stupid use of this accident to support the mandatory use of the so called "language of aviation" ( defined as such only by native english speakers and certainly not by ICAO).
The captain of the Short was even unable to comply with a simple ATC clearance ( He forced the copilot -despite his reluctance- to line up behind a landing when he was told to line up in sequence - nobody in front of him !- after a departure...The ground ATC ask him before to monitor the TWR frequency and nobody knows if they were already monitoring ( hearing, listening, discussing ..) at the time the take off clearance was given to the MD82.
The copilot was killed but why the captain suicide himself some time after ?
Why the MD82 crew do not react to the "english" clearance given to the Short and acknowledge from an intersection in front of him ?
Each time the same aswer : "workload on board", so situational awareness is a kind of ghost with high and low
The so called "situational awareness" is just part of the arrogance of the airside against the "ground side"..and a lot of pilots rate themselves instant ATC expert in any occasion until to react against ATC. But here there is nobody to report !
The future "dixit" Eurocontrol and Sesar is data link : Do you envisage to print on board all messages to all aircraft on the same frequency ?
And to come back to language , which english you are talking about ? Can you give me the adress of the english language academy that define "by the book" what are the rules commanding the words, grammar and other synthax..
Why despite it is mandatory in all other aviation sector, there is no safety case about the choice of this language ?
The real problem is not safety: it is the american imperialism over the world. Dont make the mistake , "english" is the hammer but the blacksmith is american...and i am not sure they are speaking the same language !!!