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A pilot who was observed on radar to be somewhat higher than called for and flying in the wrong direction turned out to have misheard a clearance for a Maspeth climb as a clearance for a massive climb .
An outbound pilot who was told to receive his clearance from the Center when he was on the deck misheard this as off the deck and proceeded with his takeoff, consequently finding himself head-on with an inbound aircraft.
At another point he misheard a fan's comment, thought he was being heckled, and gave the fan the finger.
Confusions between the identical sounding to and two almost led to a mid-air collision, when a pilot misheard Climb to five zero as Climb two five zero, putting him on a collision course with another aircraft that was just fifteen hundred feet above him; it did lead to a fatal accident, when a pilot, in another incident, read back the instruction Descend two four zero zero as O.K. Four zero zero and then proceeded, without correction from the controller, to descend to four hundred, rather than twenty-four hundred feet.
Although highly unlikely, it's possible, we suppose, that all these distinguished publications repeatedly misheard the same individual in the same way, although he has no speech impediment that we know of.