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Key Takeaways:

  • A British Airways 747 received a noise violation from JFK Tower after takeoff.
  • The pilot of the British Airways flight responded rudely to the noise violation advisory.
  • The author presents this interaction as a real anecdote.
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Heard at JFK one summer day after a very long ground roll and subsequent lift off by a British Airways 747.

Tower: “Speedbird XXX noise violation.”

Speedbird XXX:”Send it to the ()(*&^% Queen.”

Real story.


Dan Jenkins

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