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Listening: Navigation Failure Over the North Sea
A regional jet loses both GPS receivers halfway across the North Sea — write down exactly what air traffic control tells the crew to do about…
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Structure: ‘Past perfect’
The past perfect helps you show which of two past events came first — straight from a real cargo-plane crash report.
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Free 12 Sep 2026
Cargo Plane Overruns Runway at Miami Airport, Killing Five
A cargo plane overran the runway while landing at Miami International Airport, killing five people on the ground.
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Roleplay: Load Shift and Return to East Midlands
You are the First Officer of a Boeing 757 freighter climbing out of East Midlands when a pallet breaks loose in the hold. Work East Midlands…
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Free 10 Sep 2026
News Roundup: This Month in Aviation (September 2026)
Six aviation stories from the past four weeks: a ground-staff strike in Barcelona, Istanbul overtaking Heathrow, American’s seatback screens, a fatal pushback accident in Montreal, the…
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Structure: ‘Comparatives and superlatives’
A comparatives-and-superlatives grammar activity built from the Hong Kong pilotless-air-taxi story: two-thing comparisons vs. picking one out of a group.
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