Finally someone has put their finger on the real reason fo the Indian midair. It was not, as the program banged on about incessantly, solely due to the pilot not understanding English, another major contributing factor was the use of a flight level when issuing traffic information. This tragedy led to a change in SP to be used when giving traffic, ie
"Traffic 12 o'clock 1000 feet above "
and NOT
"Traffic 12 o'clock at FL140"
Was it? I haven't seen the accident report on the Delhi midair, so I noticed that possibility as the drama unfolded in the reconstruction. But the subsequent dialogue didn't seem to support such a misunderstanding -- the radio operator queried and corrected the pilots about the descent below FL150, so he at least was in no doubt. Is the report available online?
If you are from the UK then I wouldn’t start throwing stones – glass houses and all that.
Tell me again - how many ICAO differences has the UK filed?
No stones BIK_116.80, just an acknowledgement that there's more to designing safe communication than the language in which the words are spoken.
You may now descend with the thread... :-)