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> Here are some conversations that airline passengers normally will never
> hear. The following are accounts of actual exchanges between airline pilots
> and control towers from around the world:
>
> ============
>
> While taxiing at London Gatwick, the crew of a US Air flight departing for
> Ft. Lauderdale made a wrong turn and came nose to nose with a United 727.
> An irate female ground controller lashed out at the US Air crew, screaming:
> "US Air 2771, where the hell are you going?! I told you to turn right onto
> Charlie taxiway! You turned right on Delta! Stop right there. I know it's
> difficult for you to tell the difference between C' and D', but get it
> right!"
>
> Continuing her rage to the embarrassed crew, she was now shouting
> hysterically: "God! Now you've screwed everything up! It'll take forever to
> sort this out! You stay right there and don't move till I tell you to! You
> can expect progressive taxi instructions in about half an hour and I want
> you to go exactly where I tell you, when I tell you, and how I tell you! You
> got that, US Air 2771?"
>
> "Yes, ma'am," the humbled crew responded.
>
> Naturally, the ground control communications frequency fell terribly silent
> after the verbal bashing of US Air 2771. Nobody wanted to chance engaging
> the irate ground controller in her current state of mind.
>
> Tension in every cockpit out in Gatwick was definitely running high.
> Just then an unknown pilot broke the silence and keyed his microphone,
> asking: "Wasn't I married to you once?"
>
> ==========
>
> A DC-10 had come in a little hot and thus had an exceedingly long roll out
> after touching down.
>
> San Jose Tower noted: "American 751, make a hard right turn at the end of
> the runway, if you are able... If not able, take the Guadalupe exit off
> Highway 101, make a right at the lights and return to the airport."
>
> ==========
>
> Unknown aircraft waiting in a very long takeoff queue: "I'm f...ing bored!"
>
> Ground Traffic Control: "Last aircraft transmitting, identify yourself
> immediately!"
>
> Unknown aircraft: "I said I was f...ing bored, not f...ing stupid!"
>
> ==========
>
> Tower: "Eastern 702, cleared for takeoff, contact Departure on frequency
> 1247"
>
> Eastern 702: "Tower, Eastern 702 switching to Departure. By the way, after
> we lifted off we saw some kind of dead animal on the far end of the runway."
>
> Tower: "Continental 635, cleared for takeoff behind Eastern 702, contact
> Departure on frequency 124.7. Did you copy that report fromEastern 702?"
>
> Continental 635: "Continental 635, cleared for takeoff, roger; and yes, we
> copied Eastern... we've already notified our caterers"
> ==========
>
> The German air controllers at Frankfurt Airport are renowned as a short-
> tempered lot They not only expect one to know one's gate parking location,
> but how to get there without any assistance from them. So it was with some
> amusement that we (a Pan Am 747) listened to the following exchange between
> Frankfurt ground control and a British Airways 747, call sign Speedbird
> 206":
>
> Speedbird 206: "Frankfurt, Speedbird 206 clear of active runway."
>
> Ground: "Speedbird 206. Taxi to gate Alpha One-Seven."
>
> The BA 747 pulled onto the main taxiway and slowed to a stop.
>
> Ground: "Speedbird, do you not know where you are going?"
>
> Speedbird 206: "Stand by, Ground, I'm looking up our gate location now."
>
> Ground (with quite arrogant impatience): "Speedbird 206, have you not been
> to Frankfurt before?"
>
> Speedbird 206 (coolly): "Yes, twice, in 1944, but we just dropped our load
> and returned home."
> ==========
>
> O'Hare Approach Control to a 747: "United 329 heavy, your traffic is a
> Fokker, one o'clock, three miles, eastbound."
>
> United 239: "Approach, I've always wanted to say this... I've got the little
> Fokker in sight."
>
> ==========
>
> A Pan Am 727 flight waiting for start clearance in Munich overheard the
> following: Lufthansa (in German): "Ground, what is our start clearance
> time?"
>
> Ground (in English): "If you want an answer you must speak in English."
>
> Lufthansa (in English): "I am a German, flying a German airplane, in
> Germany. Why must I speak English?"
>
> Unknown voice from another plane (in a beautiful British accent):
> "Because you lost the bloody war!"
> --
> If a man says something while all alone in the woods, is he still wrong???
>
> It's nice to be important, but more important to be nice.
>
> Say what you mean, and mean what you say.
>
> To err is human, to forgive is devine.
>
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