The call sign was used during a CF-18 Hornet fighter jet flight in the UK on Monday
  • Jesse
    321·
    1 year ago

    This thorough, week long investigation has concluded that it was kind of humorous.

    • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      I, for one, welcome the inescapable conclusions derived from bureaucratically-compelled inquests into inherently humorous and light-hearted happenings.

  • masterspaceEnglish
    31·
    1 year ago

    The last article I read was an American high school football coach using the word Nazi as a play call against a school that’s 90% Jewish and the players using antisemitic slurs throughout the game.

    That deserves an investigation and firing, this kind of Tom Foolery requires an eye roll and a change of call sign, if that.

  • TotallyHuman
    20·
    1 year ago

    Oh no! The people we pay to train to kill others might use gasp mild swear words!

  • frostbiker
    131·
    1 year ago

    It’s my understanding that pilots don’t get to choose their callsigns. Instead, it’s their teammates who choose them, which is why they are often jokes at the expense of the pilot. E.g. the callsign of Ewan McGregor’s brother was OB-2.

    • Hype@lemm.ee
      12·
      1 year ago

      Callsigns for pilots, yes. This article is conflating callsigns with the plane’s identification/flight number.

      • frostbiker
        2·
        1 year ago

        Ok, that makes a lot of sense. Thank you for clarifying. Do you know who chooses that?

  • pbjamm@beehaw.orgEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    I saw a headline regarding this the other day, it called it something like “offensive call sign” and I immediately thought it would be something deeply awful and probably racist. Imagine my relief when I read on and learned it was instead something stupid and sophomoric.

    The pilot deserves no more than a talking too for making a silly joke.