Flight safety is at risk when communication breaks down

In Atlanta, where the world’s busiest airport fields thousands of flights each day, one researcher is working to improve communication and safety in global travel.

Eric Friginal, a professor of applied linguistics at Georgia State University, recently cowrote English in Global Aviation (Bloomsbury Press, 2019) with his former student Jennifer Roberts, now an aviation English specialist at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida, and aviation expert Elizabeth Mathews.

Here, Friginal explains how language and communication affect flight safety worldwide:

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