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Noxious fumes

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Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

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A Airbus A330, with 135 passengers and 14 crew members, was en route at FL340 when the crew decided to divert to an alternative airport. The pilots stated that there was a medical emergency on board. 11 crew members and 2 passengers felt sick and had red eyes, some of them also vomited. The aircraft landed safely at its alternative airport 20 minutes after diverting and everyone who felt unwell was taken to hospital. A subsequent examination of the plane indicated that there was a problem with the air conditioning system on the plane which caused noxious fumes to be vented into the air supply on board.

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Noxious fumes

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Suggested ICAO level: 4+

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Difficult words: vomit (v.), unwell (adj.), subsequent (adj.), noxious (adj)

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Nose wheel failure

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Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday and if you’re studying this on New Year’s Eve, enjoy the celebrations and see you in 2015!!

A 737, with 115 passengers and 6 crew, made a normal landing on runway 22L at its destination airport. However, when the crew tried to turn the nose wheel to vacate the runway it didn’t respond and they were unable to turn the plane. The aircraft stopped on the runway and had to stay there for 20 minutes until a tug arrived and towed the plane to the apron.

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Nose wheel failure

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

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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: respond (v.), tow (v.)

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Loss of separation

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An old A320, was performing a standard approach to its destination. Another plane, a 737 was performing a standard departure from the same airport, at the same time. During these two procedures, the aircraft lost the necessary separation, which reduced to 500 feet vertically and 1nm horizontally, however during this time neither aircraft received a TCAS advisory. The ATC was monitoring the situation and both planes continued without incident. Further investigation revealed that the A320 had been very high on approach which caused the loss of minimum separation required.

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Loss of separation

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

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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+

Have a great day!

Difficult words: minimum separation (n.)