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Nose wheel problem

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

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An Airbus A330 was approaching New York JFK airport when the captain noticed a red light on the nose landing gear. He informed the tower and asked to make a low pass for a visual inspection. After he did this, he was informed that the nose landing gear was turned at a 90 degree angle. After considering their options the pilots decided to land. 5 seconds before touchdown the nose gear of the A330 returned to its normal position and the landing was completed safely with no injuries or damage to the plane. After landing, the maintenance crew checked the nose gear for problems.

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Nose wheel problem

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: low pass (n.), visual inspection (n.), touchdown (n.)

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Nose gear collapse

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

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A Boeing 737, flying from Bamako in Mali, to Dakar in Senegal, landed on Dakar’s runway 03 at 3:35pm local time. During its’ roll out the nose gear collapsed and the plane came to a stop approximately half way along the runway. There were no serious injuries to passengers but the aircraft had considerable damage and the airport was closed for 12 hours while the plane was removed from the runway.

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Nose gear collapse

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: 4+

Have a great day!