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isabrella ([personal profile] isabrella) wrote in [community profile] little_details2025-03-25 02:17 pm

Plane crash actions/speech

Hi all!

I'm writing a piece about a precocious young teen who is playing a game about a plane crashing with her friends. It takes place in our world, in the 2010s. In the game, her friend pretends to be the pilot but the MC is going to correct her language from generic kid speech ("code red, we're going down!" etc.) to very specific pilot jargon because she knows all about plane crashed. I'm wondering if anyone could share what kind of jargon pilots might use during a plane crash? Any kind of crash is fine, but it would be good to know if the jargon was specific to e.g., engine failure.

Thank you!
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[personal profile] full_metal_ox 2025-03-25 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
What country are we talking? As far as the U.S. goes, here you are; if you need to be extremely period-specific (i.e., referencing a particular real-world video game), there are Wayback Machine saves going back to 14 December 2009: https://web.archive.org/web/20190704104114/https://eugeneleeslover.com/aviator_slang.html
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[personal profile] full_metal_ox 2025-04-13 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy to be of whatever use you might find therein.