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Wingtip touches runway

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

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While landing at their destination, the crew of an Embraer 145 reported that they were having difficulty controlling their rudder. They had to continue their landing because they were very close to the ground, approximately 50ft off the ground. They made a hard landing on the left main gear. A few seconds after that, the right main gear touched down and the plane slowed down on the runway as normal.
A report by maintenance workers found that the right wingtip had scraped along the ground while landing and that repairs were necessary.

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Landing gear door problem

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

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An Airbus took off as normal en route from Melbourne to Jakarta.  As it started to climb out of Melbourne’s runway 34 the pilots noted that the right hand main gear door didn’t close after the gear was retracted. The crew stopped the climb at 6000 feet and returned to Melbourne for a safe landing on runway 34 about 20 minutes after they had departed.

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Burning smell

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

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A flight from Madrid to New York was cruising at FL400 over Canada when the crew noticed a burning smell in the rear of the cabin. The Cabin crew ran to locate the source of the smell. They decided to move the passengers out of their seats and search around the seats. After five minutes of searching, they found a short circuit in the inflight entertainment system of one of the seats. They were able to remove these cables and the smell disappeared.
The pilots thought about diverting, but when the crew found the source of the smell, they continued to New York and landed safely.

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Bird strike

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

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An A320 was preparing to depart Los Angeles’ runway 24L en route to San Francisco. While the plane was taking off it suffered a bird strike in engine no.2. The aircraft stopped its climb at 2500 feet and returned to Los Angeles for a safe landing on runway 24L about 10 minutes after its departure.

The the right hand engine was badly damaged and required maintenance after landing.

A replacement plane was ready to depart two hours after the flight originally took off.

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Loss of visibility

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

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A domestic flight was on final approach to runway 15 at its destination at about 3:35PM. As it descended through 150 feet the visibility began to decrease due to snow.

The crew thought that the visibility was still good enough to continue the landing. The aircraft touched down smoothly with good visibility, but after selecting reverse thrust, some snow began to blow across the runway and the crew lost their visual reference with the lights at the edge of the runway.

The aircraft veered into the snow to the side of the runway and stopped almost immediately. There were some minor injuries, but fortunately, nobody was seriously injured.

There was some minor damage to the fuselage which required maintenance work.

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Rejected takeoff

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

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An old cargo plane was scheduled to fly from Paris to Egypt. It was taking off when the crew reported a problem with the nose gear. They had to reject the takeoff and vacate the runway. The crew taxied back to the apron and emergency services weren’t needed. The maintenance crew are still investigating the problem.

Important words: reject the takeoff, vacate the runway.