A Linguistic Analysis of the Last Words in Aircraft Black Boxes

The importance of language in aviation industry is unquestionable. Pilots use language all the time for various reasons, mostly to hold a conversation with other pilots or aircraft controllers. The official and the most dominant language of international aviation communication is English. Yet, there are numerous aviation accidents show that the role of language fails in the aspect of communication, instead language there plays a totally different role than mere communication. The cases of catastrophic aircraft flights show that miscommunications can and do occur. In any analytic investigation of the recordings retrieved and transcribed from the tapes of the aircraft black boxes, investigators linguistically misinterpret the most significant last words on the records as this task falls out of the scope of their main job.