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Listening: Lightning Strike on Departure from Amsterdam

How to do this dictation: listen to the audio and write down the missing words. You can replay it as many times as you need. When you have finished, check your answers against the answer key.

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Listening: Volcanic Ash Encounter near Bali

You’re going to hear about something that happened to an airliner during a night flight over Indonesia. Listen carefully for what the crew noticed first, what they decided the problem was, and how they dealt with it.

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Listening: Turbulent Approach to Dublin

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Play the audio and write down everything you hear. Listen as many times as you need. Then use the answer key below to check your work. This is a full dictation — write every word.

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Listening: Lightning Strike on Approach to Frankfurt

How to do this dictation

Listen to the recording as many times as you need. Six sentences that describe the incident are shown below in the wrong order. Use what you hear to number them from 1 to 6 in the correct sequence. When you are finished, check your answers against the transcript and the answer key below.

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Audio answer: ‘Lightning’

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

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A Boeing 767 with 284 people on board, was on approach to its destination in bad weather when it was hit by lightning. The crew decided to abort the approach at about 2000 feet and divert to an alternative with better weather. The aircraft climbed to FL280 enroute to its alternative and landed safely 35 minutes after aborting the approach to its original destination.

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Audio: ‘Lightning’

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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Difficult words: abort (v.), enroute