I heard from fatal command mistakes with pilots an Asian country and now everyone has to speak English. Is this again some stupid patriotism thing (i am German, i know the French attitudes), but i seriously thought to prevent command errors everyone has to speak the international aviation language.
This sounds funny first, but i have read about this in a book i can't recall right now.
Especially asian countries have a extreme passive and submissive language. The receiver is responsible to interpret the language.
In this fatal example, the lower ranked pilot said something like "our altimeter was very fortunate in the past" and what he tried to communicate was "look at the altimeter, we are to low". He was so afraid to speak up to his tired captain that they died. Another change after that incident was to make a new flight team every time.
I know this is a bit late, but I just wanted to mention that you most likely read that in Malcom Gladwell's Outliers. There's a whole chapter about aviation.
In this case, that would probably have made it worse. I doubt a panicked Frenchman would unfreeze just because he has to speak English to another Frenchman.
I heard from fatal command mistakes with pilots an Asian country and now everyone has to speak English. Is this again some stupid patriotism thing (i am German, i know the French attitudes), but i seriously thought to prevent command errors everyone has to speak the international aviation language.