Originally Posted by
graraps
ii) CSA officials went to an IATA meeting, where some "housekeeping" matters like registration codes for airlines and a/c were being discussed. Being state bureaucrats and not industry people (not much of an industry back then, either), their foreign language skills were lacking. So, when they would be asked things, they would politely nod in approval and tend to say "OK" to whatever they were told/asked.
The third story is the guy in charge of the CSA delegation at said meeting was called
O-something
K-something. So it was his way to immortalize his initials. That's definitely the most apocryphal of the three stories - must have picked it up on a.net, in all probability