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Air China Pilot can’t Speak English. Wow!

As a follow up to my brother’s god-awful experience with Air China, here’s a crazy recording of a Air China pilot who just can’t speak English at the mandatory level. Pretty disgraceful… WPvideo 1.10 ...full story at Lost Laowai

from Lost Laowai on Wed, Sep 05 2007

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