Canadians have a reputation for being friendly, but perhaps that doesn’t apply to at least one of the tower controllers at Canada’s busiest airport…
On the approach frequency, the British Airways flight was given clearance for the ILS approach on runway 6R. The pilots were then told to switch over to the tower frequency, as is standard… and that’s where things went downhill.
Once they switched frequencies, they announced their presence — “Speedbird 9ZY heavy, established 06R.” There was no response from the air traffic controller, so they made another call. Here’s how that went from there:
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