Short Final

Monday, January 26, 2009 at 12:00 AM ET

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Key Takeaways:

An airplane near Boca Raton experienced severe radio transmission issues, rendering its calls completely garbled and unreadable to the tower.
After two attempts, Boca Raton Tower was unable to understand the aircraft and advised the pilot to try another radio.
The tower humorously described the unreadable transmission as sounding like "Charlie Brown's teacher."

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Near Boca Raton, Florida, I heard an unknown airplane call, its transmission totally garbled.

Boca Raton Tower:
“Aircraft calling Boca Raton: Unreadable!”

Unknown Airplane:
[Again, totally garbled.]

Boca Raton Tower:
“Aircraft calling Boca Raton: Suggest trying another radio. You sound like Charlie Brown’s teacher.”

Don Tripp
Tequesta, Florida