I agree with you totally. My sentiment was that there have also been many
> accidents caused by ATC talking in a foreign language (English) to another > pilot who also doesn't speak English as a first language.
That can often be a problem between a controller and pilot who *do* speak English as their first language, when they use non-standard phraseology. For example, there was one accident where the pilot reported that he had lost his vacuum pump and was in the soup, but there was nothing in that report to alert the (non-pilot) controller that there was an emergency: he didn't know that the vacuum pump controlled the primary attitude instruments, and he didn't know that "in the soup" mean "in IMC". If I recall correctly, he vectored the pilot all over the place until the pilot finally lost control and spiralled in.
All the best,
David
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