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Cabin crew fall

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

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An Embraer ERJ-190, was performing a short-haul flight from Washington to New York. The pilots were ready to depart and the tug was pushing the plane back from the gate when the aircraft suddenly stopped. Two flight attendants onboard were unbalanced by the sudden stop and fell. Both suffered minor injuries and were taken to hospital as a precaution.

The aircraft was able to depart 90 minutes later when replacement flight attendants arrived and it reached its destination 70 minutes late.

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Pressurization loss

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An Airbus A319, flying from France to UK was climbing through FL220 about 40nm northwest of Paris when the crew initiated an emergency descent to FL090 due to problems with the cabin pressure. The aircraft turned around and returned to Paris for a safe landing on runway 09R about 35 minutes later.

A replacement plane was available 60 minutes later to restart the flight.

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Overheating

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An ATR-72 cargo plane, was performing a flight in Texas (US) and was lined up and waiting for departure on the runway when the pilots decided to return to the apron due to a system malfunction. During the taxi back to the apron , the pilots saw smoke start to come from the left main gear.

When the aircraft stopped on the stand a large quantity of smoke started coming from the left main gear tyres and they burst because of the heat. Emergency services sprayed foam on them and the smoke stopped.

The two pilots successfully shut down the engines and left the plane without injury.

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Wingtip touches runway

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While landing at their destination, the crew of an Embraer 145 reported that they were having difficulty controlling their rudder. They had to continue their landing because they were very close to the ground, approximately 50ft off the ground. They made a hard landing on the left main gear. A few seconds after that, the right main gear touched down and the plane slowed down on the runway as normal.
A report by maintenance workers found that the right wingtip had scraped along the ground while landing and that repairs were necessary.

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Landing gear door problem

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An Airbus took off as normal en route from Melbourne to Jakarta.  As it started to climb out of Melbourne’s runway 34 the pilots noted that the right hand main gear door didn’t close after the gear was retracted. The crew stopped the climb at 6000 feet and returned to Melbourne for a safe landing on runway 34 about 20 minutes after they had departed.

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Burning smell

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A flight from Madrid to New York was cruising at FL400 over Canada when the crew noticed a burning smell in the rear of the cabin. The Cabin crew ran to locate the source of the smell. They decided to move the passengers out of their seats and search around the seats. After five minutes of searching, they found a short circuit in the inflight entertainment system of one of the seats. They were able to remove these cables and the smell disappeared.
The pilots thought about diverting, but when the crew found the source of the smell, they continued to New York and landed safely.