French ATC and accidents

Streamlive S.360 vs Liberté MD-83

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excellent. cheers guys

hi

im working on a ‘Prevention of Air Accidents’ presentation and im trying to think of an incident that i believe happened in France, involving a Shorts 360, whereby the English flight crew could not understand what a French Controller was saying to a french pilot. The english pilots on the Shorts, continued to taxi, when an aircraft took off. the aircraft wing hit the Shorts slicing part of the roof off.

the following investigation revealed that had the controller spoken French, the English pilots would have realised what the other aircraft was doing, and so wouldn’t have continued to taxi.

did i dream this up, or did such an incident occur? if an accident like this did not happen, can anyone give details of similar accidents, where the language barrier was the primary, or one of the causes?

any help would be really great

thanks

That accident did happen.

Streamlive S.360 vs Liberté MD-83, may 25th 2000.

http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20000525-0

It did indeed happen, remember watching a show on TV about it, cant really remember any details though.