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Cracked windshield

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

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A 767, was performing a flight from Los Angeles (USA) to Chicago. While it was enroute at FL330, a crack suddenly started to develop in the windshield. It continued to develop until it formed a large spider web across the windshield. The crew decided to divert to Denver for a safe landing about 25 minutes after the crack started to develop. After landing, the passengers were disembarked and waited 4 hours for another plane to continue their journey.

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Smoke in the cockpit

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

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A Boeing 737-800, en route from Milan (Italy) to Barcelona (Spain), was cruising at FL380 and was about 70nm northeast of Marseille (France) when the crew noticed smoke coming from the flight management computer. They decided to divert to Marseille while continuing to follow their checklist to try to stop the smoke. They landed safely on runway 32L approximately 15 minutes after they first saw the smoke.
The plane stayed on the ground while maintenance tried to solve the problem. The passengers were moved on to other flights.

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Vibrations

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

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An MD-88 took off as normal on a two-hour flight. It had 131 passengers and 7 crew members on board. During the climb out from Los Angeles International Airport, the crew stopped the climb at 8,000 feet, because of vibrations in the plane. They couldn’t identify the source of these vibrations and decided to return to Los Angeles International Airport. They made a safe landing 33 minutes after departure.
After landing and disembarking the passengers, the plane was taken to maintenance to be checked.

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Cargo door problem

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

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An ATR-42 , with 36 passengers on board was taxiing to the runway when the captain noticed a cargo door warning light. He thought it was a malfunction and continued with the takeoff.
As the plane took off it didn’t pressurize correctly and as a result, the captain decided to return to their airport of origin before reaching FL080. They landed safely 12 minutes after departure.
After an inspection on the ground, it was discovered that the cargo door had not been closed properly.

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Runway incursion

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday. Enjoy!!

A small private aircraft was taxiing towards the runway after receiving taxi instructions. The pilot flying was told to hold short of the runway and wait for clearance.
At the same time an Airbus A320 was lined up and holding on the opposite end of the runway for takeoff. The A320 was given clearance to take off and began its roll for takeoff.
30 seconds later the small private aircraft radioed ATC to say that they had made a taxi error and that they were on the threshold of the runway.
The A320 had lifted off at this point and there was no collision between the two aircraft, but an investigation will start to find out what happened.

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Taxiway landing

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

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A Boeing 737-800 was cleared to land on the runway, but touched down on a taxiway which is parallel to the runway. After the plane touched down, it rolled out safely. At the time of landing there was no other traffic on the taxiway.

The weather conditions were perfect that day, but the pilot said that the approach chart was confusing and he thought that the runway was to the north of the localizer. This caused him to land on the taxiway, which he thought was the runway.

The runway is 2800 metres long and 45 metres wide and the taxiway is also 2800 metres long, but only 30 metres wide.