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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.

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Engine fumes

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

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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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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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Lightning strike

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

Have a great Christmas Day!!

An Airbus A321 was climbing out of Bangkok (Thailand) International Airport’s runway 01R with 155 passengers on board when the captain stopped the climb. He levelled off at FL090 after the co-pilot reported a lightning strike to the left wingtip.

The flight returned to Bangkok approximately 15 minutes after departure. Nobody was hurt, but the aircraft had considerable damage. The passengers were transferred to another plane to continue their journey two hours after landing.