The author here explores the place of talk, or actually 'talk-in-interaction', in pilots' execution of their duties. He also considers how pilots talk and interact with one another, as they establish what is going on around them and decide on appropriatecourses of action.
"This is the first and only micro-analytic study of the interaction between pilots in the cockpit of commercial aircraft. It examines, in close detail, the communication that pilots engage in with one another and with other parties, such as traffic controllers, as they perform t…
"Under the shadow of Nazi occupation, ordinary men and women leading apparently quiet lives as doctors, farmers, housewives, priests, and teachers engaged in spy thriller adventures to save the Allied airmen raining down among them. French and Belgian patriots, usually without a…
