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In 1923, a small WWI airfield in the London suburb of Croydon became the first to institute regular flights across the English Channel to France. Subsequently the creation of Imperial Airlines (the great-grandfather of British Airways) extended those flights to Germany. As flights proliferated, communications in foreign languages between ground crews and pilots became confusing, necessitating an agreed-upon emergency procedure...

In 1923, a small WWI airfield in the London suburb of Croydon became the first to institute regular flights across the English Channel to France. Subsequently the creation of Imperial Airlines (the great-grandfather of British Airways) extended those flights to Germany. As flights proliferated, communications in foreign languages between ground crews and pilots became confusing, necessitating an agreed-upon emergency procedure...

In 1923, a small WWI airfield in the London suburb of Croydon became the first to institute regular flights across the English Channel to France. Subsequently the creation of Imperial Airlines (the great-grandfather of British Airways) extended those flights to Germany. As flights proliferated, communications in foreign languages between ground crews and pilots became confusing, necessitating an agreed-upon emergency procedure...

In 1923, a small WWI airfield in the London suburb of Croydon became the first to institute regular flights across the English Channel to France. Subsequently the creation of Imperial Airlines (the great-grandfather of British Airways) extended those flights to Germany. As flights proliferated, communications in foreign languages between ground crews and pilots became confusing, necessitating an agreed-upon emergency procedure...

In 1923, a small WWI airfield in the London suburb of Croydon became the first to institute regular flights across the English Channel to France. Subsequently the creation of Imperial Airlines (the great-grandfather of British Airways) extended those flights to Germany. As flights proliferated, communications in foreign languages between ground crews and pilots became confusing, necessitating an agreed-upon emergency procedure...