Foreign pilots / english language

[Brad White]

I'm a journalist doing research on problems pilots may have
experienced when then encounter pilots of foreign carriers and/or air
traffic controllers (overseas) who do not have a firm command of the
english language.

I would be interested in any factual information members of this news
group would be willing to share with me.

Respectfully,
Brad White
(brad...@erols.com)

[Rod Farlee]

Brad White <brad...@erols.com> writes:
>I'm a journalist doing research on problems pilots may have experienced
>when then encounter pilots of foreign carriers and/or air traffic controllers
>(overseas) who do not have a firm command of the english language.

Language problems have been implicated in several major airline crashes.

US pilots and carriers file regular reports of incidents in which language
barriers play a role. These are regularly reported in NASA's "Callback",
published by their Aviation Safety Reporting System. A searchable CD
database can be purchased, see
http://olias.arc.nasa.gov/ASRS/ASRS.html

- Rod Farlee