Heard this one from one of the Tower Controllers here at KDTO.
For those that don't know, KDTO is an "intenstive" training field with US Aviation training a large number of professional pilot students from China and other Asian countries.
(as you read this, try to apply a bad Chinese accent to the student in the story)
One day, one of the Chinese students, returning from his first long solo XC in a C150, calls up tower, and not unusual, forgets to announce where he is...
Chinese Student: "Uhhh....Den-tohn Tah-wha, Cessna 1234, dekwahr emergency."
KDTO Tower: "Cessna 1234. Understand you have emergency, say position and altitude."
(silence)
KDTO Tower: "Cessna 1234. Understand you have emergency, say position and altitude."
(delay, then)
Chinese Student: "....Den-tohn Tah-wha, Cessna 1234, Seex Miles, I weesh dekwahr emergency."
(Now the controller is starting to get ready to kick everyone out of the class-D space, but still doesn't know where the Cessna is.)
KDTO Tower: "Cessna 1234. I Understand you have emergency, and you're six miles out. Where are you in relation to the airport? Are you east, west, north south of the field?"
Chinese Student: "....Den-tohn Tah-wha, Cessna 1234, Sowwy, I cannot hear you. Windscreen gone, it vewy loud and windy in here..."
Fortunately, they get him and the C150 on the ground safely and uneventfully, minus the windscreen that had cleanly departed the aircraft.
But "vewy loud and whindee in here" will ever be a part of my aviation history.
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