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Cabin crew fall

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

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An Embraer ERJ-190, was performing a short-haul flight from Washington to New York. The pilots were ready to depart and the tug was pushing the plane back from the gate when the aircraft suddenly stopped. Two flight attendants onboard were unbalanced by the sudden stop and fell. Both suffered minor injuries and were taken to hospital as a precaution.

The aircraft was able to depart 90 minutes later when replacement flight attendants arrived and it reached its destination 70 minutes late.

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Cabin crew fall

Listen to this recording and try to write what your understand. You can listen as many times as you like.

Come back and check the text from this recording tomorrow.

Suggested ICAO level: 3+

Have a great day!

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3D printed plane

Here’s an interesting TED talk about Airbus’ concept for the future of the plane and how it could be designed and built.

Suggested ICAO level: 5+

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Bastian Schaefer: A 3D-printed jumbo jet?

Designer Bastian Schaefer shows off a speculative design for the future of jet planes, with a skeleton inspired by strong, flexible, natural forms and by the needs of the world's, ahem, growing population. Imagine an airplane that's full of light and space -- and built up from generative parts in a 3D printer.

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Pressurization loss

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

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An Airbus A319, flying from France to UK was climbing through FL220 about 40nm northwest of Paris when the crew initiated an emergency descent to FL090 due to problems with the cabin pressure. The aircraft turned around and returned to Paris for a safe landing on runway 09R about 35 minutes later.

A replacement plane was available 60 minutes later to restart the flight.

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Pressurization loss

Listen to this recording and try to write what your understand. You can listen as many times as you like.

Come back and check the text from this recording tomorrow.

Suggested ICAO level: 3+

Have a great day!

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Family, Friends Defend Flight 370 Pilots

Here’s a video from CNN profiling the pilots of flights MH370. Much has been said about them in recent weeks but nothing has yet been found that would suggest either of them had any evil intentions when they boarded the flight.

Suggested ICAO level: 5+

Have a great weekend!!

http://youtu.be/ndzO3Cfx-xQ