XVIII. Read the texts and comment on them.

Kallita Air Incident

    On the 25th of May, 2008 B-747 belonging to Kallita Air had to perform a flight from Brussels to Bahrain. During take off roll the third engine ingested a European kestrel. There was a loud bang, followed by a loss of power and flames from affected engine. It occurred 4 seconds following V1 speed. Two seconds after the bang, all four engines were brought back to idle, and braking action was initiated. Thus 6 minutes after V1 the crew attempted to reject take off. The aircraft failed to stop in the remaining RW length, traveling 300meters beyond the end and broke in three parts.

So, bird strike was contributing factor of the incident. And the investigation commission states the crucial mistake was made by the crew- to abort take off after V1 speed.

Ryanair airline Incident

On the 10th of November in 2008 B737 of Ryanair airline flying from Frankfurt to Rome and having 166 passengers on board encountered a multiple bird strike on short final approach to Rome Ciampino airport. When the crew sighted a huge flock of starlings ahead they initiated a go-around, but the birds rose into the flight path and the aircraft suffered a considerable loss of power on both engines.

The crew were flying the aircraft manually when, passing about 200ft, the starlings – an estimated 1,000 in number – “engulfed” the aeroplane, and the speed on the engines dropped from its normal approach setting of about 65% to 40%, and moving the power levers produced no result. Within 30s of the pilots’ first sighting of the birds the aircraft had made a hard landing and come to a halt on the runway. All passengers were evacuated using emergency chutes.

 

Crocodile causes panic among passengers and crew

· To escape

· Smuggler

· To cause distress

· To stamped

· Tiny plane

· Sole survivor

It has been reported that a small airplane crashed in the Democratic Republic of Congo on 24th August 2010, killing all but one of the passengers. The cause of the accident was an escaped crocodile which created panic among the passengers and crew.

The propeller driven plane was approaching its destination when a crocodile hidden in the smuggler’s hand luggage escaped and caused distress. Passengers stampeded to one side of the tiny plane, causing it to be thrown off-balance.

The crocodile also survived the crash, but was later killed with a machete by authorities.The reptile was being smuggled by a passenger who had plans to sell it illegally. The sole survivor told authorities that the crocodile escaped as the plane was on its final approach. The terrified flight attendant hurried towards the cockpit, followed by the passengers.

The pilots were unable to maintain control of the Czech-made L-410 Turbolet once it became unbalanced. The twin-engine plane crashed into a house just short of the regional airport at Bandundu killing the pilots and 18 passengers on board.

 

Discuss the questions.

1. What kind of animals can pose danger to the aircraft?

2. What aircraft’s parts may be vulnerable due to strike with wild animal?

3. Do you possess any information about occurrences with animals?

 

 

UNIT 6

DEPRESSURIZATION

I. New vocabulary.

· Explosive decompression

· To withstand the pressure

· To deploy oxygen masks

· To put on oxygen mask

· To don oxygen mask

· To deteriorate readability

· To reach safe altitude

· Thin oxygen

· To lose consciousness

· To faint

· To collapse

· To regain consciousness

· To retain consciousness

· To be exposed to

· Suffocation

· Lack of oxygen

· To go off (about alarm)

· To experience hypoxia

· To sustain life

· To be pressed of time

· To plummet

· Ambient temperature

· Frostbite

· Slugging thinking

· Dimmed vision

· Nausea

· Dehydration

· To initiate/to commence descent

· Supplementary oxygen

· To evaluate situation

· To suck out