XII. Read the examples and give your own ones.

XIII.

TU 124 ditched on the Neva

 On the 21^st of August in 1963 Tu-124 of Aeroflot airline with 45 passengers and 7 crew members performed a scheduled flight from Tallinn to Moscow (Vnukovo). After take off 27-year old captain found out that nose gear wasn’t retracted, he requested returning to departure airport but due to appearing dense fog at it he was diverted to Leningrad.

The aircraft started to circle over the city for a considerate time in order to burn fuel for safe landing weight. They executed 8 loops. Meanwhile the crew managed to solve gear problems.

But being busy with the undercarriage pilots disregarded the fuel. So one engine ceased to operate due to fuel starvation and soon the second one cut off. Thus crew was deprived of power and couldn’t make it to Pulkovo airport. The only way out was to perform ditching on Neva river. And the captain made use of it. None from the passengers was seriously injured.

 

JetBlue A320 Emergency Landing

On the 21^st of September in 2005 A320 of JetBlue airline left Burbank, California, carrying 139 passengers and six crew on a transcontinental flight bound for New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport. Shortly after takeoff, the pilot of the Airbus received two warning lights as he tried to retract the plane's landing gear. The lights indicated there were problems with steering of the nose gear.

The flight was diverted to Los Angeles because there is longer RW there. Airbus performed a flyby over the tower and controllers discovered that the nose gear had rotated 90 degrees and become locked in down position.

Pilots decided to fly over the airport to burn the fuel as landing with nose gear locked sideways posed risk to the aircraft. So the plane remained airborne for several hours till the crew was ready to perform attempt to land. The flight attendants tried to move the passengers to the rear part of the aircraft to reduce load on the nose gear.

When touched the RW the plane continued to run on the main landing gear as long as it was possible. In 15 seconds the nose gear touched the ground, the tires rubber shredded away and friction of metal wheel led to white smoke, great number of sparks and finally flashes of flame. Apart from nose wheel the rest of the plane was undamaged and none on the board was injured.

 

 

 

UNIT 11

MEDICAL EMERGENCIES

I. New vocabulary.

· Illness/ disease

· Acute pain

· To treat

· To cure

· To deteriorate/ to get worse

· Cardiac arrest

· Epileptic seizure

· Diabetic episode

· Limb fracture

· DVT

· Fever

· Nausea

· Alcohol abuse

· Food poisoning

· Adhesive plaster

· Swabs

· Splint

· Blood pressure cuffs

· Ammonia spirit

· Pain killer

· To administer first aid

· Suffocation

· Incapacitation

· Subtle incapacitation

· Obvious incapacitation

· To lose consciousness

· To collapse

· To faint

· To regain consciousness

· Brain concussion

· Fatigue

· Stroke

· Pallor

· To alleviate pain

· To relieve pain

· To stagger the meals

· Mental abnormality

· Outward sign

· Pregnant women

· Substance

· Strict drug regiment

· Baby delivery

· To restrain