>>1971233Dash-8 had lined up on the runway and was sitting on the runway for over 50 seconds before collision.
Why the Dash-8 captain decided to sit on an active runway for so long is beyond me.
>>1971247This is ICAO phraseology. Only confusion possible here is HND TWR giving a departure order, with Dash 8 No 1.
>>1971253FAA ATC is fucking weird - they just banter on the radio frequency needlessly. SFO, AUS and JFK are the worst offenders, really. Especially when British and Irish airliners are dealing with these towers, the ATC controllers stop using standard phraseology and just start casually talking, acting like Kennedy Karens and so on.
>>1971259They do use English. It's not uncommon for ATC and pilots to be used to "Aviation English", where they just have the bare minimum memorised, and are incapable of conversational English.
There's an interesting transcript of an Aeroflot aircraft stuck on a taxiway at JFK, and the captain only knows how to say "unable to proceed", and when asked why by JFK TWR, just said "unable to proceed" until they were able to find someway of communicating that there's traffic cones on a taxiway.
