More often than not when we see air traffic control interactions where someone loses their patience, it’s the air traffic controller with an attitude, and not the pilot. Here’s a case where a United Airlines captain had an unnecessarily bad attitude, with an ironic twist at the end…
The Dreamliner was given vectors for the approach, in preparation for intercepting the localizer. Just as the plane passed Teterboro Airport (TEB) and prepared to make its final turn toward Newark, here’s what went down:
Ironically the captain had been attacking the air traffic controller for not knowing what he was doing, while his own first officer struggled with reading back basic instructions, in a way that’s just painful to listen to:
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