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Injury on board

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

Enjoy!!

A Boeing 767, was enroute from Beijing (China) to Tokyo (Japan). It was cruising at FL380. The captain had turned off the fasten seat belt sign. The cabin crew were serving food and passengers were moving around when suddenly there was unexpected, severe turbulence. One passenger, who was leaving the toilet, was thrown into the air and landed heavily on his ankle. During this fall he sprained his ankle. He was given painkillers by a doctor on board and returned to his seat for the rest of the flight. The crew descended to avoid the turbulence and continued to their destination for a safe landing about 2 hours later.

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Injury on board

Listen to this recording and try to write what your understand. You don’t need to understand every word, just the most important ideas. Use your own words to write what happened.

You can listen as many times as you like.

Check below the recording for some of the difficult words and come back and check the full text from this recording tomorrow.

Suggested ICAO level: 3+

Have a great day!

Difficult words: seat belt sign (n.), severe turbulence (n.), sprain (v.), painkillers (n.)

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Air traffic controller answers

Here are the answers to last Friday’s video, enjoy!

Suggested ICAO level for video: 5+

1. He told a pilot that his plane couldn’t land and that they had to go around, then immediately after this he said, “just kidding”.
2. 1,000ft.
3. He was suspended from his job.

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Air traffic controller

Here’s an interesting video that reports on an incident involving an air traffic controller in USA. If you can’t see the video try refreshing the page.

Try to answer the following questions about the video and come back on Monday for the answers.

1. What exactly did the air traffic controller do?
2. What altitude was the plane at when this happened?
3. What punishment did he receive?

Suggested ICAO level: 5+

Have a great weekend!!

http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2014/06/16/mxp-plane-landing-joke.hln.html

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Landing gear problems

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

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An Embraer ERJ-145 was scheduled to depart from a small regional airport in the north-east of USA. Everything seemed fine as it took off with 45 passengers on board. 25 minutes after departure, the crew was informed that there was tyre debris on the runway. The crew didn’t know if this debris was from their landing gear or not. They continued the flight as normal and when they arrived at their destination, they performed a low pass over the runway and asked for controllers and others on the ground to perform a visual inspection of the landing gear. Everything seemed to be normal, and they continued with another approach to land. They landed safely but after disembarking the passengers, the ground crew looked more closely at the plane’s landing gear. They had damage to the inboard left-hand-main tyre. This also caused damage to the flaps and the plane was removed from service until repairs were completed.

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Landing gear problems

Listen to this recording and try to write what your understand. You don’t need to understand every word, just the most important ideas. Use your own words to write what happened.

You can listen as many times as you like.

Check below the recording for some of the difficult words and come back and check the full text from this recording tomorrow.

Suggested ICAO level: 4+

Have a great day!

Difficult words: seem (v.), debris (n.), (perform) a low pass (n.), visual inspection (n.), inboard (adj.), repairs (n.)