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Cargo door problem

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

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An ATR-42 , with 36 passengers on board was taxiing to the runway when the captain noticed a cargo door warning light. He thought it was a malfunction and continued with the takeoff.
As the plane took off it didn’t pressurize correctly and as a result, the captain decided to return to their airport of origin before reaching FL080. They landed safely 12 minutes after departure.
After an inspection on the ground, it was discovered that the cargo door had not been closed properly.

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Runway incursion

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday. Enjoy!!

A small private aircraft was taxiing towards the runway after receiving taxi instructions. The pilot flying was told to hold short of the runway and wait for clearance.
At the same time an Airbus A320 was lined up and holding on the opposite end of the runway for takeoff. The A320 was given clearance to take off and began its roll for takeoff.
30 seconds later the small private aircraft radioed ATC to say that they had made a taxi error and that they were on the threshold of the runway.
The A320 had lifted off at this point and there was no collision between the two aircraft, but an investigation will start to find out what happened.

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Taxiway landing

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

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A Boeing 737-800 was cleared to land on the runway, but touched down on a taxiway which is parallel to the runway. After the plane touched down, it rolled out safely. At the time of landing there was no other traffic on the taxiway.

The weather conditions were perfect that day, but the pilot said that the approach chart was confusing and he thought that the runway was to the north of the localizer. This caused him to land on the taxiway, which he thought was the runway.

The runway is 2800 metres long and 45 metres wide and the taxiway is also 2800 metres long, but only 30 metres wide.

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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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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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Overheating

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

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An ATR-72 cargo plane, was performing a flight in Texas (US) and was lined up and waiting for departure on the runway when the pilots decided to return to the apron due to a system malfunction. During the taxi back to the apron , the pilots saw smoke start to come from the left main gear.

When the aircraft stopped on the stand a large quantity of smoke started coming from the left main gear tyres and they burst because of the heat. Emergency services sprayed foam on them and the smoke stopped.

The two pilots successfully shut down the engines and left the plane without injury.