{"id":11450,"date":"2011-12-01T02:12:28","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T02:12:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-12-01T02:12:28","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T02:12:28","slug":"Chinese-airline-vows-to-improve-crew-s-English-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=11450","title":{"rendered":"Chinese airline vows to improve crew&#8217;s English skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Chinese airline pledged Wednesday to improve its crew members&#8217; English skills after one of its flights took off from a Japanese airport without authorization.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>China Eastern Airlines did not say what caused the error, but pledged to <strong>&#8220;further improve the English communication skills of our flight crew to assure flight safety,&#8221;<\/strong> suggesting it may have been a miscommunication.<\/p>\n<p>The airline also said it was cooperating with an investigation by Japanese authorities into Monday&#8217;s incident, <strong>in which its pilot took off from Osaka airport without clearance from air traffic controllers.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8220;Eastern Airlines will fully cooperate with the investigation and will fully uphold the principle of safety first and operate in accordance with the law,&#8221; the airline added in a statement posted online on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The plane, which was carrying 245 passengers, took off without incident and landed safely in Shanghai, the China Daily reported.<\/p>\n<p>The latest incident comes after the privately-owned Chinese airline Juneyao said in August one of its pilots had refused to give up his landing slot to a passenger plane that issued a distress call to say it was running out of fuel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The pilot of the Qatar plane had alerted air traffic control in the eastern Chinese city of Hongqiao that it had just five minutes&#8217; worth of fuel left after it was diverted from Shanghai.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s civil aviation authority said at the time those responsible would be &#8220;severely punished&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Not taking that airline!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Source AFP<\/em><br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese airline pledged Wednesday to improve its crew members&#8217; 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