Indian pilots being fired for poor English skills

[wordsmythe]

-expected back at their jobs with Dell tech support by Friday

Pilots rejected for poor English - Yahoo! News

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India has sent home at least 20 foreign pilots flying for its airlines in the past year as their poor English posed safety concerns, the country's civil aviation regulator said Thursday.

English is used by India's hard-pressed air traffic controllers, who are struggling to make sense of crowded skies following a surge in new airlines in the last few years.

Rapid growth has led to carriers hiring hundreds of foreign pilots -- including from Central Asia and Eastern Europe.

"There have been cases where pilots have been sent back as their English proficiency was not up to the mark," Kanu Gohain, Director General of Civil Aviation, told reporters.

[notyoubob]

Attention, give me ears. All inside humans must press down behinds on cushions and make together cloth and metal for safe before flying space becomes so.

[lurker]

When I get one of them stinkin' east indians on the phone I quickly tell them that my indian isn't good and they better use their best English or else I'm gunna start speaking in indian.