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Suspicious device

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

Enjoy!!

An A330 was on approach to Manchester airport from Doha when the crew received a warning about a suspicious device on the plane. A military jet was sent to follow the plane on its approach to Manchester airport. The plane landed safely and taxied to a remote area for emergency services to check the plane. The airport was closed for safety reasons. Some time later a passenger was arrested for making a bomb hoax threat, but the other passengers were allowed to leave the airport and the airport opened again for landings and departures.

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Suspicious device

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.

If you follow aviation news, it’s possible you heard about this incident already.

Suggested ICAO level: 3+

Have a great day!

Difficult words: suspicious device (n.), military jet (n.), remote area (n.)

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The world’s busiest airport answers

Here are the answers to last Friday’s video, enjoy!

Suggested ICAO level for video: 5+

1. 58,000.
2. 250,000.
3. Its 5 parallel runways, which allow for simultaneous takeoffs and landings.
4. 2,700.
5. Coffee.
6. Every shift. They have emergencies related to; cardiac arrests, women going into labour, people who have strokes & smoke in the cockpit.
7. To make sure that each person that comes into the airport makes a smooth transition from air to ground and vice versa.
8. Singapore, Incheon, Amsterdam & some airports in the United Kingdom.

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The world’s busiest airport

Here’s an interesting video about the world’s busiest airport, Atlanta, and how it operates successfully.

Try to answer the following questions about the video and come back on Monday for the answers.

Suggested ICAO level: 5+

Have a great weekend!!

1. How many people are employed in the airport?
2. How many passengers pass through the airport daily?
3. What makes the airport efficient?
4. How many aircraft movements does the airport have per day?
5. What is the controllers’ favourite drink?
6. How often do the controllers deal with emergency situations? What types of emergencies do they have?
7. What is the airport general manager’s biggest challenge?
8. Which airports does he think of as some of the finest in the world?

http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/international/2014/01/16/spc-business-traveller-atlanta-airport-a.cnn.html

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Go around

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

Enjoy!!

An A320 was on approach to its destination. It intercepted the localizer and glideslope and was stabilized before the decision altitude. Close to the runway threshold there was windshear reported by a plane which tried to land before them. The pilots continued the approach but were forced to go around after the windshear made the landing impossible. They tried to land again, but had to go around a second time. The pilots decided to divert to their alternate airport which was 100km from their position. When they reached this airport, the visibility was low and getting worse. The pilots tried an approach but had to go around again after they couldn’t see the runway. At this time they declared an emergency because of low fuel. On their fourth landing attempt they made a hard landing, but fortunately were able to land.

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Go around

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: 4+

Have a great day!

Difficult words: intercept the localizer, established (adj.), divert (v.), alternative airport (n.), declare an emergency