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Article: Language lessons.(aircraft safety )
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- Flying Safety
- Article date:
- September 1, 2006
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Even with the huge advancements in technology over the past 50 years, the medium of communications between pilots and controllers has remained relatively the same. As the radio equipment our predecessors used in the past is unchanged, so are the barriers in communication that still plague us today. These barriers have been involved in numerous aviation accidents throughout history that we have learned and studied, yet we still make the same mistakes today. I will focus on one of these barriers, the language barrier, which has become more prominent for the Air Force as we continue to spread our global reach to new places throughout the world.
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