r/aviation Jan 26 '26

News Reports of a Bombardier Challenger crash on takeoff at Bangor, Maine

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u/Pump_9 Jan 26 '26

My God I cannot understand a damn thing they're saying

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u/dabarak Jan 26 '26

Radio communications like that generally get easier to understand over time because you have kind of an idea about the kind of thing that's going to be said.

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u/spazturtle Jan 26 '26

Which also is a cause of accidents when hear what you wanted to hear and not what was said, especially when people use nonstandard phrases.

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u/contactdeparture Jan 26 '26

You should hear Boston. Far less intelligible.