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Engine fumes

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

Enjoy!!

An Airbus A340, flying from Berlin (Germany) to Singapore with 246 passengers was preparing for departure. It had suffered an engine problem previously and this engine had been replaced.

The aircraft then departed for the flight to Singapore. During the flight high levels of oil consumption were recorded in the new engine. The cabin slowly filled with fumes and some passengers felt unwell. The bleed air supply for this engine was switched off and the fumes disappeared.

The aircraft continued to its destination for a safe landing. Several passengers received medical assistance upon arrival in Singapore but none were considered sick enough to be taken to hospital.

The plane completed its return flight to Berlin as normal before maintenance was carried out on the affected engine.

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Engine fumes

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!

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Big security breaches at 2 airports

Here’s a video from CNN about a security breach at 2 airports in the United States. A man was able to get over a fence and cross two runways before he was stopped by an airport worker.

Suggested ICAO level: 4+

Have a great weekend!!

http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/bestoftv/2013/12/27/airport-security-breaches-field-newday.cnn.html

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Tailstrike

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

If you’re reading this on 1st January, a happy New Year to you!

An MD-11 freighter was flying from Quito (Ecuador) to Caracas (Brazil). Everything was normal until the crew were performing the landing on runway 10 at about 10pm local time. During the landing the tail made contact with the runway surface. The aircraft performed a missed approach and lined up again to land. The second time there were no mistakes and the aircraft taxied to the apron after landing.

The plane suffered minor damage to the tail section and was under maintenance for 12 days before it could fly again.

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Tailstrike

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!

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Life of one plane

Here’s a video about a day the life of a plane.

Suggested ICAO level: 4+

Have a great weekend!!

Life of one plane

Join CNN as we fly AirTran’s busiest plane out of the world’s busiest airport for six legs over 12 hours.