I saw this yesterday at Virtual China:

Floating around the Hong Kong cyberspace this morning, a YouTube clip of Hong Kong Cable TV's New Channel report about the trouble Air China is encountering flying into New York.

• The news report plays a taped conversation between an Air China pilot and an American air traffic operator.
• The Chinese pilot speaks gibberish, starting off with an English word but then mumbling sounds for the rest of the sentence.
• The air traffic controllers say this happens regularly and poses danger.
• An Air China rep is interviewed. He says that it's the air traffic controller's fault for not using standardized language.
• By March next year, the report continues, every pilot will have taken English classes.
• Then they show an exchange between an Air China pilot who passed the English proficiency exam and an English interviewer. It's pretty ugly, but at least he's using his words.
• The report ends by saying that thousands of pilots haven't even passed this test, but are continuing to pilot planes.