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Watch out for the balloon!

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

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A flight was on approach to its destination, about 8nm before touchdown when the crew saw a balloon close to their approach path, they contacted ATC to ask about the balloon and ATC told them that the balloon wouldn’t cross their path. As a result, the aircraft continued its approach and landed safely a few minutes later. Airport authorities later contacted local police to investigate the incident.

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Steak well-done?

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

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A Boeing 767 with 235 people on board, was en route and cruising when the cabin crew detected a burning smell in the galley. They decided to check the galley and a flight attendant discovered that some food items had caught fire inside an oven. The fire was immediately extinguished and they informed the captain of the situation. The captain decided to continue the flight because the danger had passed.

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Smoke with your coffee?

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

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A Boeing 767-300, with 200 passengers and 10 crew, was cruising at FL 360 when smoke started coming from the galley. The cabin crew disconnected the galley power and then sprayed fire extinguishers into the galley to put out any possible fire. After a few minutes the smoke started to disappear. The flight crew decided to return to their airport of origin, where the aircraft landed safely about 45 minutes after taking off. After checking the plane, maintenance discovered that a coffee machine had a technical problem which caused the smoke. Because of duty time limitations, the flight had to be cancelled and passengers were moved onto other flights.

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Sick pilots

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

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Close to its destination, a small regional jet encountered severe turbulence as it descended through FL100. The aircraft was difficult to control and the crew even had difficultly reading their instruments. To make matters worse, the pilots began to feel sick as the plane descended through the turbulence. As the plane descended to 2,000ft the co-pilot vomited . The captain, starting to feel that he might vomit too, had to break off their approach and go around. They diverted and made an attempt to land at another airport. Once again in turbulence and on approach, the co-pilot became ill, vomited and was unable to fulfil his duties. This time however, the captain was able to land safely and they taxied to the apron as quickly as possible

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Blank screen

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

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An Airbus A320, was en route at FL330, with everything operating normally, when suddenly, both ECAM displays went blank. The crew tried, but were unable, to turn the displays back on. As a result they declared PAN PAN and diverted to their nearest alternative airport for a safe landing about 35 minutes later.
After landing maintenance examined the ECAM and discovered that the circuit breaker had tripped. It was reset and the ECAM displays became active again. The aircraft was then able to continue its flight.

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Unexpected extinguisher

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

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A Boeing 737-800, was en route at FL380 when there was a problem with a fire extinguisher in the cockpit. It started to spray halon around the cockpit by itself. The pilots had to put on their oxygen masks due to the danger of inhaling the gas and began a rapid descent to FL110 and then diverted to their alternative airport. The fire extinguisher was replaced and the flight was able to take off again two hours after landing.

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