Speak on the factors which influence working capacity of the person in ordinary and especially emergency situations.

You should mention the following:

· Fatigue

· Illness

· Consumption of medicines, alcohol

· Human stress

· Factors connected with an environment such as noise, temperature, etc.

Speak on the personal features which influence working capacity of the person in ordinary and especially emergency situations.

You should mention the following:

· The ability to notice and understand

· Motivation

· Job satisfaction

· Emotions

· Self-discipline etc.

Speak on the problems pilots and controllers can face in air-ground communication.

You should mention the following

· Misunderstanding

· Expectation factor

· The use of non-standard phraseology

· Poor knowledge of English.

Speak on how to prevent or avoid the influence of human factor in air- ground communication.

You should mention the following:

· Correct controller’s instructions

· Complete read back by pilots.

· Careful listening by controllers to pilots’ read back

· Improving the English language skills

· Crew or ATC team coordination

Study the information below. What facts can you get from it?

Status:	Final
Date:	03 MAY 2006
Time:	02:13
Type:	Airbus 320-21
Operator:	Armavia
Registration:	EK-32009
First flight:	1995-06-28
Total airframe hrs
Engines:	2CFMICFM56-5A1
Crew:	Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8
Passengers:	Fatalities: 105/Occupants: 105
Total:	Fatalities: 113/ Occupants: 113
Location:	6 km (3.8 mls) SW off Adler/Sochi Airport (AER) (Russia)
	* show on map
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	International Scheduled Passenger Flight
Departure airport:	Yerevan Airport (EVN/UGEE), Armenia
Destination airport	Adler/Sochi Airport (AER/URSS), Russia
Flight number:	967

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Listen to the report about the crash of Armavia Airbus A320-21.

Make notes to answer the following questions:

1. What were the airports of departure and destination of Airbus A320-21 of Armavia?

 

2. What was the weather at Sochi airport when Armavia flight 967 began the flight?

 

 

3. Why did the crew initially decide to return to Yerevan?

 

4. Why did the captain change his decision?

 

5. What were the weather conditions at Sochi airport when A-320 was approaching the destination airport?

 

6. What instructions did the Tower controller give to the pilot of A-320?

 

7. How did Airbus 320 crash?

 

8. What reasons for the air crash were mentioned by the IAC (International Aviation Committee)?

 

Speak on the influence of human factor in that crash.

Match the words to their definitions.

1. unpredictable	a) to pull someone or something with great power and force out of a particular place
2. to hang	b) to take hold of someone or something with a quick movement
3. to suck out/from	c) to break suddenly into very small pieces
4. to blow out	d) something that can’t be expected and predicted
5. to batter	e) to hit somebody hard or repeatedly in a way that hurts someone or causes damage
6. to bang	f) injury especially to the nose, fingers, etc., caused by extreme cold
7. to grab	g) to be in the position where the top part is fixed and the bottom part is free to move
8. fracture	h) to hit something hard making a loud noise
9. frostbite	i)to damage or destroy something with an explosion or by shooting
10. to shatter	j) breaking of something

Match the words to the words with the similar meaning.

a purser	depressurization
bizarre	a senior flight attendant
to believe	exactly
windscreen	strange
decompression	to fasten
to tear	to remove
vividly	to suppose
to strap	windshield

Try to arrange the cards in the correct order.

 

 

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4. Watch and check if your answers were correct. Then answer the question:

Q What caused the problem?

VIDEO # 39

You can check with the tapescript if necessary.

Listening and Speaking Bank.

Unit 9C. Exercise 5.

6. Report the situation using as many details as possible.

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Watch some video extracts and match each aviation event with the reason for the event given in the table below.

VIDEO # 40

Events	Reasons for events
Hanging by a thread	A few rivets caused a tail to blow away
Blow out	An aircraft appeared in the wrong place at the wrong time and was shot by mistake
Flying blind	Being in the cockpit a child pressed some buttons and caused aircraft to crash
Out of control	Piece of tape with glue covered static ports that had to provide data on altitude and speed (static ports should be covered during cleaning, but then any piece of tape should be removed)
Kid in the cockpit	Tiny fatigue crack caused a roof to blow away
Attack over Baghdad	Wrong sized bolts caused a windscreen to blow away and a pilot to suck out