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Ex. 1. Look at the photo and answer the questions
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- Turtles crawl on runway, delay flights at JFK
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Ex. 1. Look at the photo and answer the questions.What kind of animal can you see? How do you think it has appeared on the runway? Can it pose any risk to aircraft? Have you ever encountered an animal on the aerodrome maneuvering surface? What animals were they? Describe the occurrence. Ex. 2. Using a dictionary read the following newspaper article about non- avian hazards. Then answer the questions beneath it.Turtles crawl on runway, delay flights at JFKBy David B. Caruso, Philly.com July 8, 2009 A runway at John F. Kennedy International Airport was shut down briefly on July 8, 2009 after at least 78 turtles emerged from a nearby bay and crawled onto the tarmac. The invasion began unfolding, slowly, at around 8.30 a.m., when an American Eagle flight crew reported seeing three turtles while taxiing out for departure. Be- fore long, a chorus of pilots was radioing the tower to report turtles either on the end of a runway that juts out into the water, or approaching on the grass. The FAA* halted flights for about 12 minutes shortly before 9 a.m. while some of the turtles were cleared away, then quit using the runway entirely after getting new reports of "massive numbers" of turtles on the tarmac. Ground crews eventually cleared the reptiles away and deposited them back in the water farther from airport property, but not before the incident disrupted JFK’s flight schedule and caused delays that reached nearly one and a half hours. Jets hit turtles a few times each year at JFK, usually in the final days of June or earliest days in July, according to the FAA’s wildlife strike database. There have been no recent reports of the strikes causing any damage to an airplane. What caused delays at John F. Kennedy International Airport? Why did the airport authorities stop using the runway? How was the problem solved? What do you know about turtles? Do they pose a serious threat to aviation safety? What other animals may cause trouble on the aerodrome maneuvering areas? Is the encounter with them as frequent as with birds? What can it lead to? What do you think are possible solutions to exclude strikes with large animals on the maneuvering areas on the ground? FAA – The Federal Aviation Administration, an agency of the United States Department of Transportation with authority to regulate and oversee all aspects of civil aviation in the U.S. REVIEW жүктеу/скачать 1.29 Mb. Достарыңызбен бөлісу:
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