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Bird strike

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

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An A320 was preparing to depart Los Angeles’ runway 24L en route to San Francisco. While the plane was taking off it suffered a bird strike in engine no.2. The aircraft stopped its climb at 2500 feet and returned to Los Angeles for a safe landing on runway 24L about 10 minutes after its departure.

The the right hand engine was badly damaged and required maintenance after landing.

A replacement plane was ready to depart two hours after the flight originally took off.

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Loss of visibility

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

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A domestic flight was on final approach to runway 15 at its destination at about 3:35PM. As it descended through 150 feet the visibility began to decrease due to snow.

The crew thought that the visibility was still good enough to continue the landing. The aircraft touched down smoothly with good visibility, but after selecting reverse thrust, some snow began to blow across the runway and the crew lost their visual reference with the lights at the edge of the runway.

The aircraft veered into the snow to the side of the runway and stopped almost immediately. There were some minor injuries, but fortunately, nobody was seriously injured.

There was some minor damage to the fuselage which required maintenance work.

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Rejected takeoff

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

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An old cargo plane was scheduled to fly from Paris to Egypt. It was taking off when the crew reported a problem with the nose gear. They had to reject the takeoff and vacate the runway. The crew taxied back to the apron and emergency services weren’t needed. The maintenance crew are still investigating the problem.

Important words: reject the takeoff, vacate the runway.

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Fuel imbalance

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

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A small passenger jet was flying from Canada to USA. It had 84 people on board. While flying at FL300 about 100nm west of its airport of origin, the crew received a fuel imbalance warning. It indicated a loss of 500kg of fuel from the left tank. The crew thought that the loss of fuel was because of a fuel leak. They declared PAN PAN and returned to their airport of origin for a safe landing about 35 minutes after departure.
Maintenance found the problem and fixed it after the plane landed.

Important vocabulary: fuel imbalance, fuel leak, PAN PAN, airport of origin.

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Hydraulic problem

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

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An Embraer 145 was flying from Wichita to Kansas City (USA) with 48 people on board. It was cruising at FL310 when the crew noticed a hydraulic problem. At this time they were 58nm from Kansas City and decided to continue to Kansas as the weather conditions there were good.

The plane landed safely at Kansas City International airport 32 minutes later and came to a stop on the runway. The crew requested to be towed from the runway and as a result two other approaching planes were switched to an alternative runway. The plane was towed to a remote area to be checked by maintenance and the passengers were disembarked.

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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.