The pilots of a TAP Air Portugal flight from Lisbon to Nice in the Côte d’Azur got themselves into a very confusing conversation with air traffic control after they tried to ask for an expedited approach for landing when all of the toilets onboard stopped working. The request from the pilots of the Embraer E190…

The plane’s toilets weren’t working. The air traffic controller understood “pilots” for “toilets.” You can read the transcript or listen to the voice recordings.

  • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    82·
    26 days ago

    Doubt it, the last thing an ATC would expect is a latin word. If the pilots knew the confusion was with the word toilet, they could just spell it tango-oscar-india-lima-echo-tango.

    edit: it seems whiskey-charlie is also well known