Thought you might enjoy  some conversations that passengers normally don't 
hear. The following are accounts of actual exchanges between airline pilots 
and control towers from around the world:



While taxiing, the crew of a US Air flight departing for Ft. Lauderdale made
a wrong turn and came nose to nose with a United 727. The irate female
ground controller lashed out at the US Air crew, screaming:

"US Air 2771, where are you going? I told you to turn right onto Charlie
taxiway! You turned right on Delta! Stop right there. I know it's difficult
for you to tell the difference between C's and D's, but get it right!"
Continuing her tirade to the embarrassed crew, she was now shouting
hysterically: "God, you've screwed everything up! It'll take forever to sort
this out! You stay right there and don't move till I tell you to! You can
expect progressive taxi instructions in about half an hour and I want you to
go exactly where I tell you, when I tell you, and how I tell you! You got
that, US Air 2771?"

"Yes ma'am," the humbled crew responded.

The ground control frequency went terribly silent after the verbal bashing
of US Air 2771. Nobody wanted to engage the irate ground controller in her
current state. Tension in every cockpit at LGA was running high. Then an
unknown pilot broke the silence and asked, "Wasn't I married to you once?"

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The controller working a busy pattern told the 727 on downwind to make a
three-sixty (do a complete circle), a move normally used to provide spacing
between aircraft. The pilot of the 727 complained, "Don't you know it costs
us two thousand dollars to make even a one-eighty in this airplane?" Without
missing a beat the controller replied, "Roger, give me four thousand
dollars' worth."

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A DC-10 had an exceedingly long rollout after landing with his approach
speed a little high.

San Jose Tower: "American 751 heavy, turn right at the end of the runway, if
able. If not able, take the Guadeloupe exit off Highway 101 and make a right
at the light to return to the airport."

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Unknown aircraft: "I'm f...ing bored!"

Air Traffic Control: "Last aircraft transmitting, identify yourself
immediately!"

Unknown aircraft: "I said I was f...ing bored, not f...ing stupid!"

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Tower: "Eastern 702, cleared for takeoff, contact Departure on 124.7."

Eastern 702: "Tower, Eastern 702 switching to Departure. By the way, after
we lifted off we saw some kind of dead animal on the far end of the runway."

Tower: "Continental 635, cleared for takeoff, contact Departure on 124.7.
Did you copy that report from Eastern?"

Continental 635: "Continental 635, cleared for takeoff, roger; and yes, we
copied Eastern and we've already notified our caterers."

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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 Pan Am 747) listened to the following exchange between Frankfurt
ground control and a British Airways 747, call sign "Speedbird 206":

Speedbird 206: "Top of the morning, Frankfurt, Speedbird 206 clear of the
active runway."

Ground: "Guten Morgen. You vill taxi to your gate."

The big British Airways 747 pulled onto the main taxiway 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 (with arrogant impatience): "Speedbird 206, haff you never flown to
Frankfurt before?"

Speedbird 206 (coolly): Yes, I have, actually, in 1944. In another type of
Boeing, but just to drop something off. I didn't stop."

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O'Hare Approach Control: "United 329 heavy, your traffic is a Fokker,
one-o-clock, three miles, eastbound."

United 239: "Approach, I've always wanted to say this...I've got that Fokker
in sight."

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A Pan Am 727 flight engineer waiting for start clearance in Munich overheard
the following:

Lufthansa (in German): Ground, what is our start clearance time?"

Ground (in English): "If you want an answer you must speak English."

Lufthansa (in English): "I am a German, flying a German airplane, in
Germany. Why must I speak English?"

Unknown voice (in a beautiful British accent): "Because old boy you lost the
bloody war!