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OT - But Real Funny! - 3/27/2001 12:00:00 AM

Epicurius

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The German air controllers at Frankfurt Airport are 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 PanAm 747) listened to the following exchange between Frankfurt ground control and a British Airways 747 (call sign "Speedbird 206") after landing: Speedbird 206: "Top of the morning Frankfurt, Speedbird 206 clear of the active runway." Ground: "Guten morgen! You will taxi to your gate!" The big British Airways 747 pulled onto the main taxi way and slowed to a stop. Ground: "Speedbird, do you not know where you are going?" Speedbird 206: "Stand by a moment ground, I'm looking up our gate location now." Ground: "Speedbird 206, have you never flown to Frankfurt before?!?" Speedbird 206 (cooly): "Yes, I have, in 1944. In another type of Boeing, but I didn't stop.

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- 3/27/2001 4:34:00 AM

Flashfyre

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Wonder what went thru the controller's mind after THAT comeback?!?!?!?! :eek:

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- 3/27/2001 4:39:00 AM

Joaquim

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I guess it doesn't sound so funny in german... But it sounds better in any language than anything �politically correct�... I'm happy the �correctiness� mania is fading away - to me it allways appear as to mantain an insult but in a way to call someone stupid also... :) :mad:

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