Originally Posted by
despegue
That Air China Youtube fragment is a typical example of bad ATC with a truly arrogant and frankly incompetent controller who is unable to relate to the international climate of the airport he works in.
Unfortunately, standard in a lot of US airports, where they have no clue about standard ICAO phraseology.
The famous Youtube clip starts with an Air China Pilot who could not read back a simple taxi clearance which was delivered in a ICAO compliant format. His level of English language proficiency was unacceptable, full stop. The Politically Incorrect but Inconvenient Truth is that Chinese pilots usually display marginal language skills.
A related but also Inconvenient Truth is that because of cultural biases, CRM and Threat and Error management concepts that have a proven tack record at reducing accidents at Western Airlines, are not being effectively implemented at Chinese airlines. This has resulted in the
fact that Chinese Airlines have an accident rate which is significantly worse than Western Airlines.