In a world where progress in the teaching and testing of aviation English often has stalled, the aviation industry in Brazil has turned a significant corner, making safe aviation communication a priority.
In remarks to an aviation English conference in Brasilia in November 2012, Carlos Eduardo Magalhães da Silveira Pellegrino, the director of Brazil’s National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC), said Brazil has made a full-scale commitment to improving aviation English in its airspace. Other representatives of ANAC and the Airspace Control Institute (ICEA) also demonstrated the progress that can be made when senior administrators understand the relationship between best practices in aviation English and safe communications.
The progress is especially noteworthy in light of the possible role played by inadequate language proficiency in the Sept. 29, 2006, collision of an Embraer Legacy 600 and a Boeing 737-800 over the Amazon (
