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Old 13th Mar 2016, 01:48
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Danny42C
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Very old story (from "Flight", I think, 50+ years back, when civil R/T was much more relaxed):

"BA9999 airborne Manchester for Belfast"........Long silence....."BA9999, that service is scheduled for Newcastle".......Even Longer Silence......."Hang on, we'll go back and ask the passengers where they've got tickets for !"

(reported to "Flight" by a reader with an air-band radio).

Il Duce,
..."Speechless aircraft, pass your message"...
As you are clearly a fellow alumnus of that Fount of All Wisdom and Knowledge (ie the School of Air Traffic Confusion) at Shawbury, you will have heard the apocryphal story of a Talkdown in extremis ....."Look around for your runway and crash visually - talkdown out !"

Danny.