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Excursion

Listen to this recording and try to write what your understand. You should try to write everything that is said.

You can listen as many times as you want.

Check below the recording for some of the difficult words and come back and check the full text from this recording tomorrow.

Suggested ICAO level: 3+

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Difficult words: excursion (n.), abort (v.), skid off (v.)

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MH370 – One year later answers

Here are the answers to last Friday’s video, enjoy!

Suggested ICAO level for video: 5+

  1. He says that its functions include following waypoints and landing the plane if necessary.
  2. No it doesn’t.
  3. An electrical problem, a cockpit fire, Russian hijackers, that the plane was shot down, and a suicide by one of the pilots.
  4. He thinks it was a mid-air emergency or deliberate action which depressurised the cabin and killed everyone on board, leaving a ghost plane.
  5. It continues to fly in a straight line until it runs out of fuel.
  6. When they find the black boxes.

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MH370 – One year later

Following our theme this week, here’s a video that describes what we know, and don’t know about what happened to MH370.

Try to answer the following questions about the video and come back on Monday for the answers.

Suggested ICAO level for video: 5+

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  1. What does the narrator say are the functions of the autopilot?
  2. Does the autopilot make any turns by itself, without the direct input of a pilot?
  3. What are some of the theories about what happened to the plane?
  4. What does Captain Johnson think happened?
  5. If the autopilot reaches its final waypoint, what does it do?
  6. When will investigators know what really happened?

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One year later, what happened to MH370?

Could recreating MH370’s flight path uncover any clues as to why the plane disappeared one year ago? CNN’s Will Ripley takes a closer look.

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Cargo fire

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

Enjoy!!

An MD-11 freighter, with 4 crew members on board was en route to its destination when the crew received an indication of a cargo fire. The fire suppression system was automatically activated and for safety reasons the crew decided to divert. They made a safe landing 21 minutes later and evacuated via the emergency slides. During this evacuation, one member of the crew was injured and was taken to a hospital.

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Cargo fire

Listen to this recording and try to write what your understand. You should try to write everything that is said.

You can listen as many times as you want.

Check below the recording for some of the difficult words and come back and check the full text from this recording tomorrow.

Suggested ICAO level: 4+

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Have a great day!

Difficult words: fire suppression system (n.)

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Taxibot answers

Here are the answers to last Friday’s video, enjoy!

Suggested ICAO level for video: 4+

  1. The engines are shut down.
  2. It helps to reduce noise and emissions.
  3. 800 horsepower.
  4. The pilot is still responsible for ‘driving’ the plane to the runway.
  5. He was impressed with how manoeuvrable the Taxibot is.

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